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They don't actually publish news articles like the NYTimes though right? anti-secrecy seems to be a part of what wikileaks does but I'm not sure that would be a
by burger_moon 8y ago
They don't actually publish news articles like the NYTimes though right? anti-secrecy seems to be a part of what wikileaks does but I'm not sure that would be an appropriate name either.
- krapp 8y ago>They don't actually publish news articles like the NYTimes though right? No, they publish classified documents. What they do is more akin to public espionage than journalism.
- zaroth 8y agoEver heard of the Pentagon Papers?
- krapp 8y agoYes. But the press didn't simply publish them in their entirety without comment or context, did they? I understand people want to lionize Wikileaks and consider Julian Assange to be the modern day equivalent to Woodward and Bernstein, but to consider what they do journalism is to discredit journalism. There's a reason Edward Snowden went to the actual press and not Wikileaks.
- mmjaa 8y ago>Yes. But the press didn't simply publish them in their entirety without comment or context, did they? Even better - Senator Gravel, doing his job, brought them into Congress .. something that was necessary, because the press was compromised and wasn't doing their job.