For the past two years media writers have spent a lot of time
examining whether Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is a
journalist.  Once Marg and Homer are on board, everything
changes…  The Walkley Foundation proclaimed him one by bestowing
a big award for his contribution to journalism, but then gave
him an open platform to bash the Prime Minister. The Brits gave
him the 2011 Martha Gellhorn prize for journalism, saying
Wikileaks’s “goal of justice through transparency is in the
oldest and finest tradition of journalism.”  Jonathan Holmes was
torn. Marc A. Thiessen on the Washington Post was not. Others
have pointed out the title of “journalist” is one of the few
things standing between Assange and the wrong end of a United
States Grand Jury.  Unsurprisingly US authorities are on the
non-journalist side. In a nation built on the principals of free
speech and a free press, it’s easier for the US to justify a
desire to silence Assange and Wikileaks if his activities are
considered “incompatible with being a jo