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by eggsmediumrare 2019 days ago
How about Woodward/Bernstein? Or Obermayer/Obermaier? Or Murrow? Rachel Carson? Cronkite? Frances FitzGerald? I could go on, but my point is putting journalist in scare quotes is insulting to the thousands of brave men and women who have spoken truth to power and risked everything to expose corruption.
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AntiImperialist 2019 days ago
The difference between the ones you listed and Assange is that Assange isn't a CIA asset.
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eggsmediumrare 2018 days ago
You're telling me that Rachel Carson was a CIA asset? That Murrow's withering criticism of McCarthy was somehow a plot by US intelligence? That a German newspaper was coordinating with spooks to expose Mossack Fonseca? I find that orders of magnitude harder to believe than that they were good people dedicated to the truth.
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AntiImperialist 2018 days ago
>You're telling me that Rachel Carson was a CIA asset?

Ok. Maybe not her.

> Murrow's withering criticism of McCarthy was somehow a plot by US intelligence?

Of course. When you find weakness of a side, you don't expose it to the public. You let them be the "other side" while you blackmail them for power. McCarthy was not a good politician and he bit more than he could chew. So, there was a power shift that happened internally at that time because of McCarthy's work... but he had to be silenced and curbed because of how he handled things.

>That a German newspaper was coordinating with spooks to expose Mossack Fonseca?

Yes, definitely. If you don't know that CIA was involved in Panama Papers, you know nothing.

>I find that orders of magnitude harder to believe than that they were good people dedicated to the truth.

Oh I belive a lot of people are dedicated to the truth. They just don't end up doing very well when the truth is not good for the establishment. Look at Assange or Snowden... or even McCarthy.

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