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I'm not sure what your motivation for putting "news" in quotes is — Handelsblatt is a business newspaper that's been around for 77 years. They would not assign
by CharlesW 3y ago
I'm not sure what your motivation for putting "news" in quotes is — Handelsblatt is a business newspaper that's been around for 77 years. They would not assign a staff of 12 people to sort through 1,388 PDFs, 1,015 spreadsheets, 213 Powerpoint decks, image/video/audio files, and email unless they had several sources confirming the leak's legitimacy.
- CSMastermind 3y agoI didn't mean to imping on the reputation of any particular source. I'm unfamiliar with Handelsblatt and they're probably a great and honest publication. I put news in quotes because lots of media outlets in the United States have moved squarely towards a more sensationalized entertainment style presentation of events that seems in contrast with my expectations of news sources to be primarily informational. Now any time I see a headline on any site I've learned to click through the article and look for the source then be skeptical if I don't find them.
- CharlesW 3y ago> I didn't mean to [impinge] on the reputation of any particular source. Apologies, I didn't mean to imply malice. I was just curious. > Now any time I see a headline on any site I've learned to click through the article and look for the source then be skeptical if I don't find them. I think that's a smart default. In lieu of being able to download the leaked materials yourself (which I don't think they can just re-distribute?), I suppose it comes down to your judgment of the messenger's legitimacy, and the consequence of legal risk for them if they were to misrepresent the source material.