re: #93 Obdicut

For me, the release of the CRU emails is just as bad. If Wikileaks doesn’t investigate what’s given to them at all, then they can be simply used by anyone— including governments— to release propaganda, either entirely fictionalized or real emails and documents taken out of context and edited for effect.

A journalist should investigate the story, should try to figure out what the real story is. Not the objective story, there is no such thing, but be honest about his point of view, engage with the subject, and try to represent a truth as best he can.

The release of information alone does not do that. In any way, shape, or form.

I would include most media in the last decade.
I think the word I have heard used is stenographers.