Is it:

a) An semi-honest parasite that publishes any and all controversial information (but ESPECIALLY information from "leakers" who live in a country where they can expect prison rather than a firing squad) about governments and corporations (but ESPECIALLY governments and corporations in free Westernized countries where there is already some degree of transparency and democratic accountability) in the interest of people and justice across the world... Julian Assange's fame and fortune
There, that's how I'd characterize Wikileaks.