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A journalist is a person who collects, writes, or distributes news or other current information to the public. [1] Check. You can argue about whether his styl

A journalist is a person who collects, writes, or distributes news or other current information to the public. [1] Check. You can argue about whether his style is commendable or not (for codes of conduct see [2]), but that does not change the fact that he is a journalist. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalist [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism_ethics_and_standards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism_ethics_and_standard...

krapp 7y ago
Assange doesn't write news, and classified documents are not, themselves, the product of journalism merely for being leaked. Writing a story about the Pentagon papers is journalism, printing them verbatim without context or comment is not journalism. If running a website which publishes third party content makes one a journalist then I guess Reddit makes spez a journalist too.
- mduerksen 7y ago
  So an editor-in-chief is not a journalist to you?
  - velp 7y ago
    Correct. In the same way that a coach is not a player
  - krapp 7y ago
    > So an editor-in-chief is not a journalist to you? I don't know, ask Wikipedia, because my comment was using the definition you provided via that site. Either way, the answer isn't relevant to Assange or Wikileaks. He's not an editor in chief, because he doesn't run an organization which has editorial policies or which writes stories which have to conform to those policies. We disagree that the definition you provided applies to Assange - as I see it, it clearly doesn't. There's a reason Snowden didn't go to Wikileaks - he wanted journalists to handle the release of his information responsibly, and to provide the necessary context and framing narrative to the public. Wikileaks would simply have dumped all of them onto the web, because that's what they do.

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A journalist is a person who collects, writes, or distributes news or other current information to the public. [1] Check. You can argue about whether his styl

by mduerksen 7y ago

krapp 7y ago
Assange doesn't write news, and classified documents are not, themselves, the product of journalism merely for being leaked. Writing a story about the Pentagon papers is journalism, printing them verbatim without context or comment is not journalism. If running a website which publishes third party content makes one a journalist then I guess Reddit makes spez a journalist too.
- mduerksen 7y ago
  So an editor-in-chief is not a journalist to you?
  - velp 7y ago
    Correct. In the same way that a coach is not a player
  - krapp 7y ago
    > So an editor-in-chief is not a journalist to you? I don't know, ask Wikipedia, because my comment was using the definition you provided via that site. Either way, the answer isn't relevant to Assange or Wikileaks. He's not an editor in chief, because he doesn't run an organization which has editorial policies or which writes stories which have to conform to those policies. We disagree that the definition you provided applies to Assange - as I see it, it clearly doesn't. There's a reason Snowden didn't go to Wikileaks - he wanted journalists to handle the release of his information responsibly, and to provide the necessary context and framing narrative to the public. Wikileaks would simply have dumped all of them onto the web, because that's what they do.