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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday January 03 2018, @06:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the a-rolling-stone-gathers-no-ellsberg dept.

The Rolling Stone has run a web version of its 1973 interview with Daniel Ellsberg. Ellsberg is the former US military analyst who blew the whistle on the Nixon administration's misdeeds regarding the Vietnam War. Specfically he photocopied an extensive, secret study and gave it to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and later to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and nearly a score of other newspapers. These documents he released became known as the Pentagon Papers eventually published as excerpts and commentaries by The New York Times. Both The New York Times and The Rolling Stone have since drifted from that kind of coverage and the article provides an interesting contrast to how those publications are now.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by TheB on Thursday January 04 2018, @12:42AM

    by TheB (1538) on Thursday January 04 2018, @12:42AM (#617444)

    Nice of you to remind us Rolling Stone, now can you print the final Michael Hastings article that you promised to run after his death.

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