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So your argument is that the New York Times and Wikileaks have different journalistic standards.

That I can agree with.

I have seen the argument about potential harm raised a number of times, and I resonate with it and dislike it, just like I disliked Jane Fonda's trip to Hanoi during the Vietnam War but she wasn't made an enemy of the state.

But I note that even The National Enquirer gets the same journalistic privileges and protections that the New York Times does, we do not yet set a 'minimum standards of practice' bar for qualification as being journalists.



If Julian Assange had just taken a stupid PR trip to Afghanistan, I don't think that would have had any particular repercussions for Wikileaks.




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