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... In October the group released a package of almost 400,000 documents called the Iraq War Logs in coordination with major commercial media organisations. 7 x
by iterationx 16y ago
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In October the group released a package of almost 400,000 documents called the Iraq War Logs in coordination with major commercial media organisations.
7 x 400,000 = 2.8m documents?
You don't change people's minds by releasing 2.8 million pages of documentation, you change it by repeating your slogan over and over and over.
- aw3c2 16y agoWikileaks leaking such documents makes it possible for the actual media to make fresh and truthful presentations with their data (thus maybe repeating your slogan again and again).
- Eliezer 16y ago> You don't change people's minds by releasing 2.8 million pages of documentation, you change it by repeating your slogan over and over and over. Welcome to my quotes file. Do you want a name on that in case I use it sometime?
- iterationx 16y agoMy handle's fine, I'm just summarizing Edward Bernay's ideas from Propaganda. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(book) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(book)
- lhnz 16y agoIt amuses me that you say this... A while back I started secretly quoting people from new.yc on my tumblr when they said something intelligent.
- wmf 16y agoWikileaks is no longer about the content of the leaks anyway; it's all about the process of leaking them. Given the assumption that nobody's going to read the leaks anyway, a bigger number is better. New! Now with 7x more leaks!