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On WikiLeaks, Journalism, and Privacy: Reporting on the Podesta Archive Is an Easy Call<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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FOR YEARS, WIKILEAKS\u00a0has been publishing massive troves of documents online\u00a0\u2014 usually\u00a0taken without authorization from powerful institutions and then given to the group to publish \u2014 while news outlets report on their relevant content. In some instances,\u00a0these news outlets work in direct partnership with WikiLeaks \u2014 as the New York Times and The Guardian, among others, did when jointly publishing the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs and U.S. diplomatic cables \u2014 while other times media outlets simply review the archives published by WikiLeaks and then report on what they deem newsworthy.<\/p>\n

WikiLeaks has always been somewhat controversial, but reaction has greatly intensified this year because many of its\u00a0most significant leaks have had an impact on the U.S. presidential election and, in particular, have focused on Democrats. As a result, Republicans who long vilified the group\u00a0as a grave national security threat have become its\u00a0biggest fans (\u201cI love WikiLeaks,\u201d Donald Trump gushed last night, even though he previously\u00a0called for Edward Snowden to be executed<\/a>), while Democrats who cheered the group\u00a0for its\u00a0mass leaks about Bush-era war crimes now scorn it\u00a0as an evil espionage tool of the Kremlin.<\/p>\n

The group\u2019s recent publication of the emails of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta has been particularly controversial because it comes less than a month before the election;\u00a0it included all sorts of private and purely personal exchanges along with substantive, newsworthy material; and it was obtained through\u00a0actions that were\u00a0likely criminal (hacking). Compounding the intensity of the\u00a0debate\u00a0is the now standard Democratic campaign tactic of reflexively accusing adversaries\u00a0of being tools or agents of Moscow.<\/p>\n

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On WikiLeaks, Journalism, and Privacy: Reporting on the Podesta Archive Is an Easy Call FOR YEARS, WIKILEAKS\u00a0has been publishing massive troves of documents online\u00a0\u2014 usually\u00a0taken without authorization from powerful institutions and then given to the group to publish \u2014 while news outlets report on their relevant content. In some instances,\u00a0these news outlets work in direct […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3741,5437,3771,14467,462,542,1921,652,5567,14468,12380,880],"class_list":["post-22011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-clinton","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-guardian","tag-john-podesta","tag-journalism","tag-moscow","tag-new-york-times","tag-privacy","tag-the-intercept","tag-us-diplomatic-cables","tag-us-presidential-election","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22012,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22011\/revisions\/22012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}