Did you know that in Britain they have no such legal protection as we have in our First Amendment? That is why the editor of The Guardian reached out to The New York Times to partner with The Guardian in printing the Wikileaks government documents stolen by Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning. The Guardian editor is Alan Rusbridger, pictured below in a photo taken by James Day for a story by Ken Auleta in the New Yorker's October 7, 2013 edition.
Under Rusbridger's editorship, The Guardian has broken three big stories. The first was the exposure of Rupert Murdoch's News of the World criminal and unethical tactics. The second was the printing of the Wikileaks documents. The third was the publication of documents stolen by Edward Snowden and given to Glenn Greenwald. The Snowden documents were also shared with The New York Times and ProPublica.
Auleta writes that
Publicly, Rusbridger has expressed alarm that, by leaving open a back door to monitor Internet communications, the U.S. and the U.K. may prompt less open governments, such as China and Iran, to move to a walled, state-operated Internet; the result would undermine the ideal of a worldwide, open communications system.
Rusbridger has convinced the Scott Trust that funds the Guardian that the future is in the internet, and that the print media will shrink.
Today, a third of the Guardian’s worldwide audience is American; after one N.S.A. story this summer, readership reached seven million daily visitors, and in June the U.S. site attracted more unique visitors—twenty-seven million—than its British counterpart.
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