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Re:Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits l... by Mizza on Friday July 02, 2021 @08:31PM (#27718379)
The idea that journalism shouldn't be "partisan" is a bizarre American fantasy, not an international standard.

From day one, Wikileaks had a stated policy of trying to achieve "maximum impact" for their publications. For instance, the same claim is also made at the release of the Afghan War logs in 2011: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/wikileaks-file...

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Re:Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits l... by the_optimist on Friday July 02, 2021 @08:45PM (#27718438)
Certainly not a US ideal. The only place I have ever seen this talking point echoed is by Democrats explaining why they want Assange to be extrajudicially persecuted by secret intelligence agencies. Wouldn’t at all be surprising if the idea of Wikileaks as a partisan organization started as an CIA/FBI plant in the WaPo.
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