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Oh Fox News. Even when reporting on something legitimately interesting and out of the ordinary, they have to use very un-journalistic phrases like "...allegedly commanded a loosely organized, international team of perhaps thousands of hackers..."

"Perhaps thousands"? Perhaps millions! Perhaps five. Ugh.

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There's a slightly less breathless and more coherent report here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/06/lulzsec-sab...

Give credit where its due: Fox News broke this story. The Guardian report appears to be based solely on the earlier Fox story and public documents.

It has nothing to do with giving credits. I (and I'm sure many others would also) like to read less tabloid-y and factual reporting anytime and so would prefer to read the story on Guardian than on Fox.

But the quotes are literally lifted from the Fox piece. The Guardian does not add much new reporting, it just lays out the existing facts in a way you find more agreeable.

Which is what I thought I made clear when I linked to it i.e. same report, less hyperbole. Perhaps you would have preferred it if I had used the word "version" rather than "report"?

the Guardian is a re-blog of an original fox story. you are showing a bias

They use lots of confusingly contradictory language to puff up the arrest, like: "the head of LulzSec" then immediately following with "the loose network of hackers", and contrasting "loosely organised" with Sabu being at the "nerve centre", and also "perhaps thousands of hackers" whereas they claim to know they're arresting "top-ranking members".

So simultaneously acknowledging they taking out a member of a distributed network but also talking up the importance of that member. Strange.

You really don't see how a group could be both "loosely organized" and have yet also have members who act as leaders?

Sex! Drugs? Maybe. Rock and roll? We'll find out!

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