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When you see professional media figures decreeing "Julian Assange is not a journalist," compare how much corruption & criminality by the world's most powerful factions they've exposed in their work to how much Assange has exposed. That contrast will tell you all you need to know.
Also, the question "is X a 'journalist'?" - as though it's a credentialed, licensed status like being a doctor or lawyer - is deceitful. The First Amendment's press freedom protects *an activity* available to everyone - not just a designated priesthood called "journalists."
Of course Julian Assange is Not A Journalist™. He never even went to the White House Correspondents' Dinner gala a single time! I wish those who anoint themselves arbiters of who is & isn't a journalist would (a) provide their definition & (b) compare their big exposés to his.
Obvs. ;)
As Peter Jennings said, all one needs to write a good story is a pencil and paper.
No true Scotsman
Isn’t the charge that he helped steal the information, not simply just reported it.
For one to hack anything they have to have access , he didn't have access to those systems , It's like someone reading a book on hacking and finding out how to, and then arresting the writer . or suing the gun manufacturer for someone shooting someone.
They're hard at work to change that, no doubt, and the corporate spook-presstitutes will howl with joy when they succeed...
I know. Their insistence on a single, narrow, authorized definition of "journalist" kind of shows their hand. Like they want to establish a literal Politburo.
"bUt JulIAn dIDnT Get hIS JoUrnaLisM LaNYArd fRoM mY jOUrNaliSm sCHoOl!!"
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