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It's not without a sense of irony that WikiLeaks puts an embargo on the press release and asks that news organizations not leak the story beforehand.
by biot 15y ago
It's not without a sense of irony that WikiLeaks puts an embargo on the press release and asks that news organizations not leak the story beforehand.
- eli 15y agoActually I think it's intended to be completely unironic
- arctangent 15y agoOr maybe even post-ironic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-irony http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-irony
- amurmann 15y agoIn February 2009, before Wikileaks was well known, I listened to an interview (http://www.kuechenradio.org/wp/?p=366 http://www.kuechenradio.org/wp/?p=366) with the back then German representative of wikileaks. Back then they had the problem that big media didn't care about anything that came out of wikileaks. They thought that part of the reason for the lack of attention was that no publication wanted to use a lot of pages for material that was accessible to their competitors as well. The practices Wikileaks employs today might be against the intended ethos, but have sure shown to be effective and are this way better for the cause.