Nathan Human This story made the news for a reason. The media could have simply forgot about it like they do everything else. Instead they are actively PROMOTING the website it emerged from (WikiLeaks), and fashioning it as an outlet for subversive news. It also conveniently creates the illusion that there remains a bastion of free speech on the internet and that the democracy is sound...
The website gets endorsements from most of these media agencies (and advertising), and is now being painted as a threat to national security by the US military to further add to its credibility. So that people send their dirt there thinking its safe. By all means send your shit there, but I wouldn't!!!!
Think about how easy it would be to simply fire up one of your own videos to wikileaks and popularize a rebel media... The military knows that we are so desensitized to it, that any reaction will be minimal, (asides from compulsively circulating the story via social media), so they release their own tape to a website endorsed by lying the media as "truthful" we all flock their and expose ourselves.
As an aside, in 10 years that website will be reduced to a place to rat out your neighbors for stuffing to much into their garbage bins.
It would appear as though this story has appeared on Ziovision (NBC, Reuters etc.), I initially suspected it wouldn't be. I should have known when they made the pitch for Wikileaks that it was... just a pitch for Wikileaks. Send all the sensitive intel you don't want traced back to you (heehee) there, Wikileaks is open for business!