“Anyway, Assange and Wikileaks are not themselves “media” entities by any reasonable standard...”
What reasonable standard? Are you implying that if I don’t meet these criteria I have no freedom of the press? If not, how does one go about getting permission to have this freedom?
Well, for one, stealing information and hacking networks to get information would be a reasonable standard to say you are a thief (or spy) instead of a journalist.
That was a comment for people who argue that journalism/media has some special exemption from laws pertaining to classified materials and espionage.
No, I don’t believe that “freedom of the press” applies to publication of materials you have no legal right to possess or publish. If you want to change the laws, change the laws, but don’t pretend (as liberals do) that the 1st Amendment is a license to commit espionage.