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Also impresses me by how many posts here believe the media coverage of Assange. Just goes to show, Americans are the most naive consumers of commercial news on
by pconf 15y ago
Also impresses me by how many posts here believe the media coverage of Assange. Just goes to show, Americans are the most naive consumers of commercial news on the planet, by a considerable margin.
All I want to know is where I can send a check.
Long live government transparency.
- Ixiaus 15y agoHere's their bitcoin address: 1HB5XMLmzFVj8ALj6mfBsbifRoD4miY36v
- redthrowaway 15y agoThe problem with sending money via bitcoin at the moment is that it will likely be worth significantly less tomorrow than it is today, and less still the day after. It would be nice to have a bitcoin alternative that was actually a viable currency; as of now I know of no such thing.
- Tichy 15y agoThey just have to exchange them back into dollars today then. Why wait till tomorrow?
- jordanvisco 15y agohah, might be the only real use for bitcoins so far!
- Tichy 15y agoDo you have a citation for that? I've never visited the Wikileaks site, and now it seems to be down. Edit: oops, never mind, it is at wikileaks.org, not .com - found the BitCoin reference. Could not make sense of their IRC thing, though. Why not generate a new BitCoin address directly on the page?
- nir 15y agoI think it's very wrong for banks to disallow money transfers to WikiLeaks, and I think Americans are often naive but "Americans are the most naive consumers of commercial news on the planet" is highly exaggerated.
- pconf 15y agoI can see how someone who has not spent significant time living outside of the US could be of this opinion, but every US resident I know who has lived outside of the country for any significant period of time is also of this opinion. You don't need to spend much time reading European or Asian newspapers, listening to or watching BBC, DW, then be insulted by FOX and Clearchannel to see exactly what the issue is.
- nir 15y agoI'm not an American. I've only been living in the US for the a few years. Of course there's some poor reporting in the US, like anywhere else. I don't know of any European/Asian newspaper that does a better job than the NY Times or WaPo (or for that matter any good regional US paper), for all their faults, and those who are comparable are usually less widely read than the American ones.
- Peaker 15y agoHave you seen anything like Fox News anywhere else?
- nir 15y agoI think TV journalism isn't American media's stronger suite, but you could fairly say that globally Fox News is the rule rather than the exception.
- pconf 15y agoGovernment-bias may well be more common than not, or than commercial advertiser-biased. The difference between those countries and the US is consumer education. At least outside of the US the viewers / listeners / readers know they're not getting an unbiased perspective.