Things You Can’t Say About Assange or WikiLeaks

Re:Things You Can’t Say About Assange or WikiLeaks by phaus on Monday January 07, 2019 @03:12PM (#18849490)

No. Alt-right tabloids like Breitbart are obviously significantly worse than mainstream media, but almost all journalism is trash. Every major network can point to really great work that some of their journalists have done. However, every day ALL of them post intentionally misleading stories designed to manipulate people that don't fact-check.

Frequently, they leave things out or use deceptive wording to change the meaning/context of events. Even when they cite facts, they often do so in ways that make telling what actually happened difficult.

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Re:Things You Can’t Say About Assange or WikiLeaks by cowpig on Monday January 07, 2019 @06:34PM (#18851427)

This "almost all journalism is trash" is just naively cynical.

I bet what you call "deliberate manipulation" I would describe as "telling a story."

There is often no such thing as "the truth"; two people who saw the same thing happen will often interpret and describe it very differently.

It's unavoidable, and if you see the world in black and white you're blind to most of the details.

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Re:Things You Can’t Say About Assange or WikiLeaks by phaus on Monday January 07, 2019 @08:35PM (#18852202)

You're making an awful lot of incorrect assumptions here.

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