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> Your entire objection to Wikileaks seems to be that it is unconventional in a literal sense

I'm not objecting to Wikileaks, I'm objecting to Assange calling it journalism.

I've gotten downvoted simply because people are emotional over this -- as if I'm attacking them.

I was glad you raised the question, as I had the same thought as you at first. That just cutting and pasting some documents is not journalism.

I then read a tonne of definitions of the word "journalism" and to me. They pretty much all just say journalism is getting the facts out there, in any form. There's no requirement for a journalist to make a "report", for it to be journalism.

I would be interested to see more examples of journalism where no report was written.

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