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It's not only NYT releasing info about #cablegate, check out Guardian too: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/the-us-embassy-cables http://www.guardian.co.uk/world
by moondowner 16y ago
It's not only NYT releasing info about #cablegate, check out Guardian too: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/the-us-embassy-cables http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/the-us-embassy-cables
- moxiemk1 16y agoCould we call it something more descriptive than "cablegate?" Its also not a scandal in the same way as Watergate - much more in line with the likes of the "Pentagon Papers". Perhaps a similarly descriptive hashtag, like #wikileakscables or #wikileaksdiplomaticcables if you're not bound by 140 characters. But please - let's raise the level of discourse from sensationalist "Action News" by refusing to use pidgeonhole phrases and instead call things accurately.
- moondowner 16y agoTrue - Watergate maybe is a scandal of a larger scale, and true - a more descriptive tag could've been used, but the tag #cablegate was proposed by Wikileaks via their Twitter profile ( http://twitter.com/#!/wikileaks/status/8942910410072064 http://twitter.com/#!/wikileaks/status/8942910410072064 ), and everyone followed along. I think that they did it so everyone would't use the tag #wikileaks when they are referring to the US Embassy cables release but a separate one.