In Dec. 2010, blogger Glenn Greenwald (a WikiLeaks supporter) explained independent journalism to a CNN correspondent. WikiLeaks website is here. This leaked video (with more than 15 million YouTube views) shows the killing of employees of the Reuters news agency and wounding of children by US attack helicopters in Iraq.
Photo above was taken in August 2012 when I visited the Ecuadoran embassy in London (WikiLeaks' founder had taken refuge inside); I was there days after the British government threatened to invade the embassy, a serious breach of international law.
Following in WikiLeaks footsteps is a new U.S.-based group founded by Norman Solomon, ExposeFacts.org. (Full disclosure: I am an advisor).
On the 2015 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders, the United States has fallen to 49th out of 180 countries -- partly because of the federal government's harassment of investigative journalists & whistleblowers, as well as arrests of journalists covering demonstrations.
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