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What exactly is partisan?
by sjg007 8y ago
What exactly is partisan?
- FireBeyond 8y agoContrived and controlled releases to influence a narrative in a particular desired direction. Being given a trove of documents categorized as misdeeds by both sides of government and largely sitting on those by one side, and releasing those that adversely impact the other. Partisan.
- sjg007 8y agoOr timely.
- FireBeyond 8y agoOkay. Then why was it "timely" to release material critical of the left leaning factions of US government... ... but at the same time "not timely" to release material critical of the right leaning factions?
- sjg007 8y agoDoes this ignore the fact that Wikileaks might have been played?
- thousandautumns 8y agoPossibly, but: 1. Wikileaks has declined to publish leaks critical of Putin and Russian in the past 2. Wikileaks inexplicably denigrated the release of the Panama papers, which contained lots of damning information about several Russian oligarchs and key Putin allies, despite the fact that it seems like something they would be supportive of 3. Assange had his own show on Russian state-sponsored television It is entirely possible that Wikileaks was duped by the Russian government. But there is lots of circumstantial evidence that makes the idea seem suspect.
- boomboomsubban 8y ago>Being given a trove of documents categorized as misdeeds by both sides of government and largely sitting on those by one side, and releasing those that adversely impact the other That seems like a fine reason to call someone partisan, but doesn't sound like anything Assange has been shown to have done. Besides, the press is often partisan. That doesn't mean we should abandon a free press.