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> So they prefer to be unwitting pawns? Yes, just as journalists often are when someone comes forward with a story or leaks information, etc. By not making th
by grandalf 10y ago
> So they prefer to be unwitting pawns?
Yes, just as journalists often are when someone comes forward with a story or leaks information, etc.
By not making the sort of editorial decisions that would slant the meaning of the leaked data, WL stays above that. Other journalists are free to dig deeper and write full-scale investigative stories based on the data.
- mcphage 10y agoChoosing not to exercise judgement doesn't mean you stay above politics, it just means you're merely at the whim of it.
- grandalf 10y agoOnly in the short term, in the long term naked truth is more important than the political concerns of the moment.
- mcphage 10y agoYeah long term I don't see Wikileaks coming out of all this looking very good. Their final write up will be "Russian stooge".
- xnull2guest 10y agoRight, the US National Security apparatus will be the author of the writeup, and Americans won't have any access to a story outside the bubble.