The Owner of Our Parent Company, Village Voice Media, Demands to Know: Where Are WikiLeaks' Media Friends? (Updated!)

Michael Lacey is the executive editor of Village Voice Media. And he is not one to hold his pen when he feels injustice has been done. Hence, his e-mail in which he demands to know:Where are the First Amendment's establishment warriors as government-spooked businesses try to shut down Wikileaks? Hackers...

By Robert Wilonsky

December 13, 2010

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Michael Lacey is the executive editor of Village Voice Media. And he is not one to hold his pen when he feels injustice has been done. Hence, his e-mail in which he demands to know:

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.

The bossman sent that this morning, along with the note: "More to come."

Updated at 9:14 a.m. Tuesday: Here's that more to come.

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