NPR and WikiLies

NPR apologizes for letting its hosts and guests spread the untruth that WikiLeaks has published a quarter of a million classified diplomatic cables, when the truth is fewer than 2,000 so far in the latest dump, an untruth said so frequently in so many places it has become for many of the public one of those "agreed-upon truths" that everyone knows but ain't so. (And I bet a large number of NPR listeners, and others, still believe it, despite this correction.)

Surely that mistaken belief fed by the media feeds into the number of people who want Wiki frontman Julian Assange iced forthwith, as here and here.

Nick Gillespie from earlier today on why WikiLeaks is the story of the year.