My impression that partisanship in reporting is incredibly strong.
When no, he was and is as partisan as anyone else.
He's more akin to an activist.
> WikiLeaks wins top Australian journalism prize... The Walkley Award is one of a number of journalism prizes won by WikiLeaks in recent years, including Amnesty International’s UK Media Award and the acclaimed Martha Gellhorn Prize. The latter award is given to journalists who reveal “an unpalatable truth that exposes establishment propaganda.” These prizes undermine the Obama administration’s claims that Assange is not a journalist and that the publication of thousands of secret US diplomatic and military cables is illegal.
> a person who writes news stories or articles for a newspaper or magazine or broadcasts them on radio or television
Simply dumping files on a website doesn't make you a journalist and US courts agree.
Cambridge.org needs to wake up.
The various yt auditors around - especially in the US - all class themselves as journalists.
The year is 2024 and we've had the internet for a good while now.
I think it's safe to say that "tradition definitions" are long, long dead and we need to get on with what the reality actually is.
Who cares what "journalists" were defined as in 1980.
