Re:WikiLeaks is struggling to stay online as millions of doc...
by dijit on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @06:03AM
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1) I said that there's not much dirty laundry on Trump to leak and I explained why.
2) Even if there was, it doesn't mean you need to wait for leaks from both sides of a political spectrum to report on them
3) Even if point 2 was true: how would you reconcile one side having more leaks than the other side, or if one is unverified or hard to verify?
4) Even if you could reconcile point 3 somehow: people will still call you biased because the nature of the leaks might not be symmetrical.
How would you operate in such a world.
FWIW I have no real dog in that fight, I am not on one of the US sides, I'm mostly worried about my own politics in the UK and I'm worried that our journalism is not functioning properly, and part of the reason is because the UK is following tact of the US and poisoning public opinion and treating journalists as inhuman meat to be derided publicly and discarded when public support wanes enough.
2) Even if there was, it doesn't mean you need to wait for leaks from both sides of a political spectrum to report on them
3) Even if point 2 was true: how would you reconcile one side having more leaks than the other side, or if one is unverified or hard to verify?
4) Even if you could reconcile point 3 somehow: people will still call you biased because the nature of the leaks might not be symmetrical.
How would you operate in such a world.
FWIW I have no real dog in that fight, I am not on one of the US sides, I'm mostly worried about my own politics in the UK and I'm worried that our journalism is not functioning properly, and part of the reason is because the UK is following tact of the US and poisoning public opinion and treating journalists as inhuman meat to be derided publicly and discarded when public support wanes enough.