Hillary Clinton: We Want Journalism Innovation That Makes Info Easier To Share... Unless It's Wikileaks
from the tone-deaf dept
Jeff Sonderman points us to the odd statement put out by Hilary Clinton and the State Department for World Press Freedom Day, in which she praises the internet for making info easier to share and for holding governments accountable:We have all witnessed the power that this surge in connectivity can have in shaping society and holding governments accountable. New media empowers individuals around the world to share information and express opinions in ways unimaginable just ten years ago.And yet, all of this is occurring at the same time that the State Department has continued to condemn Wikileaks and has supported the treatment of folks like Bradley Manning. He doesn't qualify as someone who decided to "speak out in perilous circumstances" as he tried to "pursue, record and report the truth?"
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Do as I say...
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Getting the scoop = money. Releasing the scoop as requested = future scoops. Money > all
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Logic...it burns us. *hiss*
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2011=1984
Of course he doesn't. He spoke out against the government. Nobody speaking out against the government is reporting the truth, because the government decides what is and isn't true. Only those who report the truth according to the government are considered journalists by the government.
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They tried, but they got it backwards and now all government is media run.
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This only applies to information that makes other governments look bad, not to info that makes the U.S. govt look bad.
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Oh and if you want to listen to government just do a simple mind trick. There openly telling you what there doing but you have decode it. Just take everything they say and the opposite is the truth. As least on capital hill. As for state legislature its about the same only we really need to shorten the term for governorship.
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The hypocritical statements coming out of the US government today never cease to amaze me.
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You know there is a button on your keyboard for that "".
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No, he doesn't. He is a thief, plain and simple. Those documents were not submitted to him; he stole them off of government computers. Anyway, Wikileaks isn't a journalistic organization; they do not report on any issues. They just buy stolen documents and distribute them.
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"We have all witnessed the power that this surge in connectivity can have in shaping society and holding governments accountable."
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Also being a journalist doesn't always mean that there's a report as well, on occasions, it just mneans getting the truth out.
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— Abraham Lincoln
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