Note: This blog quoted former NYT executive editor Bill Keller as saying in an email response to the op-ed linked below that ‘an attempt to criminalize WikiLeaks’ publication’ of the U.S. Embassy cables would be ‘an attack on all of us’ and that ‘the mainstream media should come to his [Julian Assange's] defense’. After the hoax, which was widely tweeted, was discovered, WikiLeaks explained on its Twitter site (@wikileaks) that the email response attributed to Keller was a send-off, a hoax meant to expose the NYT’s silence on the illegal economic blockade imposed on WikiLeaks by US financial institutions.
http://gigaom.com/2012/07/25/the-nyts-bill-keller-on-why-we-should-defend-wikileaks/
http://gigaom.com/2012/07/24/first-they-came-for-wikileaks-then-the-new-york-times/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jul/29/bill-keller-fake-column-wikileaks