WikiLeaks denounces UNESCO After WikiLeaks Banned from UNESCO Conference on WikiLeaks

[LiberalLovinLug]

22. Ok, you have a point about the name of the conference.

From reading the OP and the Wikileaks page link, I did not find out about the actual name of the conference. I presumed it was all about Wikileaks influence on the "news of the world" (small letters).

Two such despairingly different entities and influences. One is worth multi-billions and the other is blocked from even small donations using credit card companies or PayPal. that's just one of many differences. Its odd that they include them both in the same topic.

From their website, no I don't think the WPRC is out to get Assange, but I don't agree with the format. Its one thing to ban Murdoch (not that he would show up), because he already has a world wide audience through his media empire to spread his point of view, whereas Wikileaks is demonized by the only media that is allowed on the airwaves, and rarely, if ever, gets a forum to defend itself. So forgive me if I have a built in knee jerk reaction to defend Wikileaks based on the treatment they typically get.

Another thing on the WPRC site link you posted reveals that the conference is co-sponsored, among other groups, by the World Association of Newspapers & News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), the World Editors Forum and the International Press Institute.

Gee, I wonder if they have any biases???? I'll bet you since Murdoch owns a large percent of the world's press companies, that those groups have more than one in there that has a mandate to defend The News of the World.