Update: Wikileaks: Where are its media friends?

Michael Lacey December 14, 2010 9:57AM

UPDATED: "WikiLeaks Betrayed by Amazon, Visa, Mastercard---and Worst of All, the Media"

Where are the First Amendment's establishment warriors as government-spooked businesses try to shut down Wikileaks?

Hackers with computers, not hacks with press passes, have been the first line of resistance.

Click on the link above to read the latest on the controversy from Michael Lacey, executive editor of Village Voice Media.

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