On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 06:29:28AM -0500, John Young wrote:
WikiLeaks/Assange is primarily a source not a journalist and journalists customarily sacrifice sources to save themselves.
Assange in the early days of WikiLeaks was harshly critical of journalists and adopted the journalist cloak when journalists joined the org and shit started to come down.
WikiLeaks has sacrificed sources to save itself. But like journalists continues to claim it protects sources in order to keep leaks coming in.
Also contacts authorities for approval like journalists, redacts documents, hustles for funding
If that's all true, TPTB should have just worked with Assange. But instead they crucify Assange. When the many (true) WL competitors come, they will be far from so compliant.
reportedly now in the millions of dollars, brays about its public service, avidly advertises itself, breaks laws under guise of constitutional privilege, etc.