{"id":912,"date":"2008-05-02T04:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=912"},"modified":"2008-12-20T20:23:21","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T20:23:21","slug":"whinges-wikileaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/05\/whinges-wikileaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Whinges from Wikileaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">T<\/span>he guys at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikileaks.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Wikileaks<\/span><\/a> (a site I much admire) are not happy. And instead of bearing their unhappiness stoically, they are having a <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptome.org\/wikileaks-4th.htm\">whinge<\/a>. If they don\u2019t press release stuff, it doesn\u2019t get reported. Journalists are lazy. Bloggers are windbags. None of us escape.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Any journalist, any blogger, any academic, and indeed any human being who could set aside a cumulative half a day to read and make a few phone calls could say something worthwhile, original and interesting using <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/wiki\/US_North_Korea_Country_Handbook_(1997)\" target=\"_blank\">these<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/wiki\/UK_ISTAR_intelligence_handbook_(2007)\" target=\"_blank\">documents<\/a>. [<span style=\"font-style: italic\">follow the links<\/span>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Professional journalists won\u2019t without intervention because it doesn\u2019t do anyone a favor that can be called in later and few can break even without plagiarism. [<span style=\"font-style: italic\">ouch<\/span>]<\/p>\n<p>In addition the respected press obtains its own power by mediating the conversation of competing powers &#8211; making sure each attack on a power group is supported by another power group. [<span style=\"font-style: italic\">I have a handy power group wall chart always to hand<\/span>]<\/p>\n<p>Secret documents from morally incensed secretaries upset this process. [<span style=\"font-style: italic\">bang goes that source<\/span>]<\/p>\n<p>The Internet media certainly won\u2019t help &#8211; with few exceptions, it has relegated itself to revealing the mood of the amateur commentariat. [<span style=\"font-style: italic\">you\u2019re all blowhards<\/span>]<\/p>\n<p>Its members primary motivation is to demonstrate in-group loyality on the issue de-jour; consequently it slavishly copies from the very professional press it maligns, rarely adding more than is necessary to advertise peer value conformity. [<span style=\"font-style: italic\">and copy-cats<\/span>]<\/p>\n<p>My advice?<\/p>\n<p>Chin up guys! No one loves a misery guts.<\/p>\n<p>PS: Their site is currently down&#8230;(2 May 2008)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The guys at Wikileaks (a site I much admire) are not happy. And instead of bearing their unhappiness stoically, they are having a whinge. If they don\u2019t press release stuff, it doesn\u2019t get reported. Journalists are lazy. Bloggers are windbags. None of us escape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2465,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/2465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}