8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd and Tana Ganeva, AlterNet Posted on December 31, 2010, Printed on January 4, 2011 http://www.alternet.org/story/149369/ The corporate media's tendency to blare misinformation and outright fabrications has been particularly egregious in coverage of WikiLeaks. As Glenn Greenwald has argued, mainstream news