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For over a month, the radio network has repeatedly referred to the release of “thousands” of confidential State Department cables, when in fact only 1,947 are publicly available. Ombud Alicia Shepard writes: “Here’s a hat tip to Henry Norr, a San Francisco listener who frequently complains about NPR’s news coverage” and forced the WikiLeaks correction. || Romenesko Archives: SF Chronicle suspends Norr over war protest. (March 27, 2003/summary only; links are dead).
> Call it the Year of WikiLeaks, writes CJR’s Hendler
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