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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules by _jal on Friday December 10, 2021 @01:02PM (#29513219)
> They never forgave him for exposing the Clinton emails

The issue there was precisely how he was emphatically not acting as a journalist.

Journalists do not coordinate news releases with their preferred candidates.

Political operatives do.

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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules by dpwm on Friday December 10, 2021 @01:12PM (#29513342)
> Journalists do not coordinate news releases with their preferred candidates.

No, they would never do anything like that:

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-b...

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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules by cwkoss on Friday December 10, 2021 @01:48PM (#29513826)
I think this is a naive and unrealistic perspective. Journalists coordinate with their preferred candidates all the time to gain better access. They shouldn't but they do.

(And, whether wikileaks meaningfully coordinated with trump campaign is debatable)

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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules by boomboomsubban on Friday December 10, 2021 @08:09PM (#29517427)
>Journalists do not coordinate news releases with their preferred candidates

That's basically a press conference, which are both a mainstay of journalism and you'll see particularly well connected journalists leak what a press conference will be about before it happens.

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