Wikileaks open letter

The primary duty of journalists everywhere is to advance the cause of understanding, not to assist governments and powerful interests in suppressing information, and never to defer to ingrained habits of secrecy... We believe no democracy has ever been harmed by an increase in the public’s knowledge and understanding.

Wikileaks Open Letter | Open Letter in Defence of Wikileaks’ Right to Publish

wikileaksopenletter.com

We believe that free societies everywhere are best served by journalism that holds governments and corporations to account. We assert that the right to publish is equal to, and the consequence of, the citizen’s right to know.