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Re:Chelsea Manning, who gave trove of U.S. secrets to Wikile... by nicky0 on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @08:29AM (#14357736)
For the uninitiated, what's wrong with the Washington Post?
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Re:Chelsea Manning, who gave trove of U.S. secrets to Wikile... by roflc0ptic on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @08:38AM (#14357795)
The common complaint is that they're liberal. People in my circles think they're a corporatist neoliberal rag, but it's really a matter of perspective. Some people think they're one of the few institutions still doing passable journalism.
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Re:Chelsea Manning, who gave trove of U.S. secrets to Wikile... by graphitezepp on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @08:39AM (#14357796)
Its in vogue to hate on large news sites? All I know is it didn't have full screen adds or "sign up!" nonsense pop up without an adblocker so they are fine with me.
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Re:Chelsea Manning, who gave trove of U.S. secrets to Wikile... by babyacountant on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @08:36AM (#14357784)
Personally I lost a bit of faith in them after the whole YouTube PewDiePie racism debacle.
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Re:Chelsea Manning, who gave trove of U.S. secrets to Wikile... by dagw on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @08:42AM (#14357827)
Wasn't that the WSJ?
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Re:Chelsea Manning, who gave trove of U.S. secrets to Wikile... by pharrlax on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @08:48AM (#14357873)
Started with WSJ but lots of other outlets pitched in.
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Re:Chelsea Manning, who gave trove of U.S. secrets to Wikile... by dagw on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @08:58AM (#14357943)
But if you're going to boycott someone over something shouldn't you boycott the entity responsible?

From what I can find WaPo reported what WSJ wrote and then gave plenty of space to Kjellberg and his side of the story.

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Re:Chelsea Manning, who gave trove of U.S. secrets to Wikile... by cholantesh on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @10:05AM (#14358511)
More accurate to say that it was first reported by the WSJ and picked up by other outlets based on their reputation as a paper of record [1]. Whether this perception is merited, or if the concept is (still) relevant is another conversation.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_of_record

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