Are Assange-advising news outlets treasonous?

Much of the lefty chatting class has pooh-poohed the idea that WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange can be a traitor since he’s Australian, not American. But what about the American news organizations that are advising him?:

These newspapers ‘have been advising WikiLeaks on which documents to release publicly and what redactions to make to those documents.’ AP questions whether WikiLeaks will follow these redactions, but nevertheless seems quite impressed by this ‘extraordinary collaboration between some of the world’s most respected media outlets and the WikiLeaks organization.