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Journalists do not pick sides. ~~He had email from the RNC and~~ DNC via Russian government sponsored hacks. He chose to release ~~only~~ DNC emails to the benefit of pro Putin candidate Trump. Edit word
Edit edit: can't find any info on RNC hacks parallel to the DNC ones
Could you explain why Russia would give him the RNC emails if they didn't want them published? I've seen this claim go unchallenged many times.
I can't explain their motives. ~~I can only say WikiLeaks had them but did not release~~.
Edit: nope can't say that. Apparently that was just an embolism. Nothing to see here just mopping up my pride.
Typing this into duckduckgo shows me nothing about the them having the RNC emails:
did wikileaks have rnc emails
Not a single link. Please provide the link that says they had them. If you can't read in between the lines, I'm saying what you said is untrue but gets repeated constantly.
You're right. I absolutely cannot find that wikileaks had RNC info. I've searched quite a bit determined to find what I remember but nada.
There is this but about DCLeaks having but releasing a bit of republican info on Trump's primary challengers
But that is not what I remember and certainly doesn't help my case.
I apologize. Either my memory fails me or I was mislead (or both). Certainly does not refute Assange being a channel for Russia to get trump elected but does make me look like a tool.
Appreciate the reply. And sorry for being a bit of a dick about it. It's just one of my pet peeves since seeing it repeated for years.
I think you were perfectly reserved in your response. It helped me not dig in or just blow it off and not respond. Thanks!
Journalists do and can pick sides. If you only ever report the opinion of the ruling party you're a spokesperson and no journalist.
The "sides" may be political, moral or ideological. You're still a journalist.
If this were not the case, Fox News world have been shuttered long ago.
You don't report for any party. You report the truth that you find by linking the facts you uncover.
Russia hacked the RNC, not Wikileaks
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/nation-world/article/Russia-Hacked-Republican-Committee-but-Kept-Data-10787385.php
Well shit. That is what I remember. All my searches: 'russia hack RNC', 'republican hack' , 'RNC hack', etc. were flooded with 2021 results from a different hack. Nothing from WikiLeaks, DCLeaks, Gucifer, 2016 presidential hack, or 2016 Russia interference yielded anything fruitful.
Thank you! At least I feel less crazy.