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They hit mainstream already in April when they leaked Baghdad airstrike video. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_published_by_WikiLeaks http://en.wikipe
by lubos 16y ago
They hit mainstream already in April when they leaked Baghdad airstrike video.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_published_by_WikiLeaks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_published_by_WikiLe...
- amalcon 16y agoIt's true, that did make the news, but it was more of a footnote. Nobody really cared until December.
- bOR_ 16y agoIn my perception the wikileaks of iraq / afghanistan / cablegate got far more tv-news exposure throughout the year than facebook did. It is true that wikileaks itself became only an issue until nov/dec, but its leaks before that had high news value.
- linhir 16y agoNot to be callous, but no matter how tragic one war crime is, it doesn't rise to anywhere near the level of either the more recent Wikileaks data or, well, a lot of other news events from the year. That is to say, if the Baghdad air-strike video was the only thing Wikileaks did this year, than you wouldn't think Assange should be person of the year.
- lubos 16y agoif if if...
- scott_s 16y agoI think you're being unreasonably dismissive of a valid point: preparing a person of the year issue takes a considerable amount of time, and Assange's most noteworthy act of the year happened relatively late.
- pyrhho 16y agoIt apparently also doesn't surpass a website which lets people throw sheep at each other.
- Raphael 16y agoSounds fun. Do you have a link to that?