If Assange is a mere journalist, he and his organisations are hypocrites because of their use of NDAs and either malicious or deeply incompetent in their complete disregard for the privacy of people (bystanders) mentioned in their dumps. For example, dumping the credit card numbers and addresses of donors to the Democratic Party is unnecessary and clearly intended to do harm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks#Promotion_of_conspir... and downwards is a good place to start - the idea that Wikileaks are some kind of bastion of good journalism is pretty naff
By that definition there's hardly anyone who could be called a journalist.
It's also a textbook example of a "no true scotsman" fallacy.
A journalist is someone who does journalistic work, so he's a journalist, even if he's a bad one.
Just as I wasn’t an engineer until I started designing and making things.
Do you have an engineering degree?
Used to be that you'd have to be registered as a professional engineer before calling yourself one.
Are you agreeing with my point? Not everyone who calls themself something is that thing. Assange is certainly not a journalist.
