Julian Assange: Media coverage of accused Wikileaks leaker Bradley Manning is appalling

From Huff Post:

The WikiLeaks founder also described how the prosecution of Manning -- and potentially his own organization -- under the Espionage Act of 1917 could have a chilling effect on investigative journalism. [...]

Assange, responding to a question from The Huffington Post, described much of the media coverage of Manning's situation as "appalling." He continued:

There have been some good journalists that are starting to break through that. I see that the Washington Post has been improving its coverage. Glenn Greenwald, from Salon, has always been on this issue, dealing with it in a comprehensive and robust manner.

That we saw, for example, with Frontline last night -- once again a concentration on salacious and really quite irrelevant personal factors. There are many, indeed, perhaps most, people in the United States from divorced parents. But how many have spent the last year without conviction in a military prison. The answer is one. ...