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The issue isn't necessarily that their reports are false, it's that they choose what to release and when and they do so with political bias.
by libraryatnight 5y ago
The issue isn't necessarily that their reports are false, it's that they choose what to release and when and they do so with political bias.
- slim 5y agoThis applies to NY Times, Guardian, ProPublica and Buzzfeed too
- libraryatnight 5y agoThat's true, and maybe this my fault, but early interviews with Assange and reporting on WikiLeaks gave me higher expectations for their objectivity.
- tootie 5y agoCan you cite me a single case of a politically-timed release of information from any of those? And I don't just mean that it had a political impact, I mean that editors deliberately held a story until it could have more effect on an election.
- alentist 5y agohttps://greenwald.substack.com/p/journalists-illustrating-how-they https://greenwald.substack.com/p/journalists-illustrating-ho...
- bstar77 5y agoThis has always been my reservation. If you have all the knowledge in the world, but only expose the transgressions of people and institutions you have a vendetta against, how does that improve anything? This is why we have crackpots like Trump, chants of "lock her up", skepticism of established institutions, and skepticism of science moving to the forefront. Assange isn't the only one doing this, but he was a big part of it.