Re:New Charges in Huge C.I.A. Breach Known as Vault 7
by burger_moon on Friday June 22, 2018 @05:38PM
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They don't actually publish news articles like the NYTimes though right? anti-secrecy seems to be a part of what wikileaks does but I'm not sure that would be an appropriate name either.
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Re:New Charges in Huge C.I.A. Breach Known as Vault 7
by krapp on Friday June 22, 2018 @07:41PM
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>They don't actually publish news articles like the NYTimes though right?
No, they publish classified documents. What they do is more akin to public espionage than journalism.
Re:New Charges in Huge C.I.A. Breach Known as Vault 7
by zaroth on Friday June 22, 2018 @08:35PM
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Ever heard of the Pentagon Papers?
Re:New Charges in Huge C.I.A. Breach Known as Vault 7
by krapp on Friday June 22, 2018 @08:51PM
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Yes. But the press didn't simply publish them in their entirety without comment or context, did they?
I understand people want to lionize Wikileaks and consider Julian Assange to be the modern day equivalent to Woodward and Bernstein, but to consider what they do journalism is to discredit journalism. There's a reason Edward Snowden went to the actual press and not Wikileaks.
Re:New Charges in Huge C.I.A. Breach Known as Vault 7
by mmjaa on Monday June 25, 2018 @06:09AM
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>Yes. But the press didn't simply publish them in their entirety without comment or context, did they?
Even better - Senator Gravel, doing his job, brought them into Congress .. something that was necessary, because the press was compromised and wasn't doing their job.