I just helped organize a news conference with
Holly Sterling, the wife of jailed CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling
and a number of press freedom advocates and whistleblowers.
Just prior to the news conference this morning, Democracy Now was
good enough to have Norman Solomon (my boss) and Holly Sterling on the
program.
The problem is how Democracy Now introed
— and therefore, framed — the segment: “Sterling is serving a
three-and-a-half-year sentence for leaking classified information to New York Times
reporter James Risen about a failed U.S. effort to undermine Iran’s
nuclear program. Risen later exposed how the risky operation could have
actually aided the Iranian nuclear program.”
That is a very benign way to describe what Operation Merlin (the program in question) was about.
-- Sam Husseini, "How 'Progressive Media' Go Wrong: the Case of Jeffrey Sterling" (CounterPunch).