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Hammers home the point that the integrity of any journalism is contingent on editing, and context.

Yet still I’m glad for the leak - for the first time in months I heard more discussion and awareness that a war we’re bankrolling is still raging instead of celebrity infididelity.




Re: your second point, here's a good example of what you mean: http://i.imgur.com/NVih0.jpg

(via @chrisloos)


Though just to clarify something, this footage was taken in 2007 at the height of the Iraq War. It's not recent and the war is not still raging, at least not at anything close to the 2007 level.

But I agree with your main point. Context is everything, Wikileaks could have handled this better.


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Probably because it says nothing but "I agree". It doesn't bring anything to the discussion, hence 0 karma (negative would be overkill, however).




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