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Thanks to one persistent listener, NPR published a correction admitting that it has mistakenly – and more than once – inflated the number of State Department diplomatic cables released recently by WikiLeaks. Since the cables first became public on Nov. 28, NPR had repeatedly referred to "thousands" of confidential State Department cables. In reality, as of December 30, 2010 , only 1,947 are publicly available. Here's a hat tip to Henry Norr, a San Francisco listener who frequently complains about NPR's news coverage. He first contacted to me on Dec. 13. about this NPRWikiLeaks story.
NPR Apologizes for WikiLeaks Mistake
By JAMEY KEATEN and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE <a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/mgh.bw.general/general;page=t0;t0=middle1;sz=120x40;ord=1234567890" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/mgh.bw.general/general;page=t0;t0=middle1;sz=120x40;ord=1234567890" alt="" border="0" /></a> The diplomatic records exposed on the WikiLeaks website this week reveal not only secret government communications, but also an extraordinary collaboration between some of the world's most respected media outlets and the Wikileaks organization, just as U.S. officials target WikiLeaks in a criminal investigation. Unlike earlier disclosures by WikiLeaks of tens of thousands of secret government records, the group is releasing only a trickle of documents at a time from a trove of a quarter-million, and only after considering advice from five news organizations with which it chose to share all of the material.
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