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Wikileaks To Sell Hugo Chavez' Email
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Wikileaks seems to be a bit hard-up for cash, so they're trying a little experiment. They plan to auction off an archive with three years worth of Hugo Chavez' email. The winner will get a period of embargoed access to break any stories they can find in the files, while Wikileaks will later publish the archive in full. Wikileaks plans to use the profits for their legal defense fund, but they may run into trouble because most reputable news outlets have policies against paying sources."
Well, in your case it's probably unlucky ;)
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LOL if the successful bidder turns out to be Chavez.
Well, it would only buy him some time, as they are planning to eventually release publicly the entire archive. I suspect that they will get some pretty good bids for it, as the right wing media doesn't have much in the way of ethics. Besides, I'm not even sure if it is truly unethical as many whistle blowers count on publishing companies for advances on books and then the news companies report on it. As they often have close ties, at least for marketing, if not more direct corporate ties; This action just cuts out the middle man. The only question that I have is "how and why did they get it?", was the source paid, did he donate it thinking of the public good, or was it made up altogether.
So I'm thinking a bidding war won by Fox News. While seemingly intellectual, Chavez is a fairly scary leader, I'm sure that McCain is looking forward to using the worst of Machiavellian activities. I'm just wondering if they'll publish what I'm sure is his gloating over the manipulations of the oil market
The grass is only greener, if you don't take care of your own lawn.
they may run into trouble because most reputable news outlets have policies against paying sources.
I'm sure if there is some emails between Obama and Chavez there, a reputable news outlet such as Fox News would be willing to pay...
oh wait!
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"Journalists don't create stories, they document existing events."
HAAAHaHahahahah...Awesome. +5 Funny!
Oh, wait - you were serious about that weren't you?
You know they have a whole new class of antipsychotic drugs out there now - I think you ought to try one and see if it works for you.
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Like most of them? The list is long, but Fox, CNN and the AP come to mind...
They're not a reputable new organization, but they have the Daddy Warbucks RNC behind them.
Even if they didn't find anything damming, I'm sure they could invent something.
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Because that idea has stopped working back when the government was composed of 50 individuals and its entire communications was still carried out on parchment.
The truth is that in modern times most government actions are utterly inscrutable without vast, time-consuming, labour-intensive cross-referencing and other analysis, far beyond the means of average citizenry. This is particularly applicable in the area of expenditures where obscurity, "privacy" and other smoke-screens are especially desirable to various crooks, and so a byzantine complexity of epic proportions was erected to ensure that the general public has no clue as to what is going on.
Add to this the fact that modern corporate "media" is malleable in the extreme by the political establishment members, to the point that confusion, uncertainty and doubt can be spread so effectively as whip entire nations into an unthinking blood frenzy over non-existent "weapons of mass destruction".
See above. They were able to brain-fuck a majority of supposedly "free" and "educated" populace. A few easily threatened and in other ways manipulated individuals are a laughable obstacle.