that is because almost all owners of major news outlets are trump supporters
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It's literally 6 dudes controlling all of it
Obligatory "this is extremely dangerous to our democracy "
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Bigger question to me is why haven't the hackers just uploaded the details to like pastebin or some other neutral data upload site ? That seems to have been what was done in the past and in turn given the media free reign to share the info
Someone has to publish and put it into the public domain like Wikileaks did. Of course, at that point they will be liable and be charged with using stolen material and sued. But, hey, take one for the team.
so what's stopping "someone"? there are infinity minus one randos on the internet willing to host juicy hot leaks for whatever ulterior motives.
What happened to Julian Assange is what's stopping someone. And he wasn't even in the US.
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I mean in the past hackers posted a lot of data online without getting caught...like the Ashley Madison hack for example. You don't have to use a middleman journalist to post it
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There is a difference between a "leak" and a "hack"... I think in this case, they say "leak" because it was someone from Trump's team who released the info.. maybe they don't feel they can secure their anonymity if they post it directly online
It has become quite evident that much of the main stream media is for trump
Just look at who they are owned by. People just as weird as he is. Not the good weird though. The nasty kind.
Ironically becoming the fake news sources Trump has been screaming about since 2016.
You mean the ones that did publish leaked information on Hillary?
The circus gets more clicks than policy debate
Mainstream media is for drama. And Trump is a drama machine.
A Trump presidency is good for ratings and that's all they care about
That's a high-school level analysis.
The reality is that the media companies are small parts of much larger organizations that will benefit from Trump's impact on worker rights, taxation, home ownership, environmental regulation, and more.
If Fox News team at a net loss of 2000%, it would still be worth it to Murdoch.
NBC is owned by Comcast, whose major shakers include JP Morgan, Vanguard, and more.
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With Trump and the current GOP, the corruption is in plain sight anyway. At this stage, you could dig up a thousand more incriminating dossiers and it still wouldn't move the needle for the MAGhats.
Huh. The same ButterEmailz corporate media put their thumb on the scales, again?
Weird. I keep hearing about this alleged "liberal media". Just where in the fuck is this supposed liberal media, anyway?
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It's time the leakers start releasing this information on the open Web if it the journalists don't publish it
Well duh, you think the major media companies that own like 99% of all local news stations and constantly run fear mongering stories and give Republicans soft ball questions and a platform to speak on are really going to leak into against Trump?
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Assange is now free. Just say'in.
The asshole actively aided the 2016 Trump campaign by releasing Hillary's emails while refusing to release anything damaging to Republicans. What makes you think that he wouldn't keep being a Russian puppet now?
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“At least three news outlets were leaked confidential material from inside the Donald Trump campaign […] So far, each has refused to reveal any details about what they received.”
I kind of got the impression that AP was indicating they wouldn’t keep silent (after verifying the materials).
The discussion in the comments here is illuminating, though. I knew Wikileaks was a Russian mouthpiece, but I didn’t realize the website offered cover for reporting of other news agencies, so they could avoid legal liability for releasing things.
Would not be surprised if a random site spun up somewhere with these documents on them soon.
I mean, I guess the difference is that Hillary’s emails were made public by wiki leaks, so media are like “who cares, it’s already public” but this time, it’s not public
That's one difference, but the timing is another difference. Hillary's emails were reported on quickly and extensively, yet these leaks were suppressed for 3 weeks. It's not like those news outlets reported that they had information, and didn't provide details, but rather they reported nothing at all.
But the whole thing is bizarre. If someone actually wanted to get information out there, they wouldn't have gone to those news outlets. There are other newspapers that would have actually published stories. So I'm not sure what to make of the thing.
Let's not forget that both the DNC and RNC were hacked in 2016, but only DNC material was leaked.
Totally a coincidence that trump campaign gets hacked and that data is not released again.
Another key difference is that the Trump administration charged Julian Assange for publishing leaked documents. In the past it was the leakers that would be prosecuted, but publishers weren't because of the chilling effect on free press that would cause. Now we're seeing that chilling effect in action.
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Send it to me. I'll publish it. Problem solved.
By not printing any of it, they just create a talking point that there was nothing embarrassing to print. Thanks. That really helps us. Assholes.
Trump is financially advantageous. Our current economic model incentivizes outrage because it fuels engagement.
Trump is a money maker. That is why he is constantly in the spotlight. People are drawn to oddities and weirdos so they take full advantage and keep him in the spotlight by any means necessary. They won’t retire him until he’s dead. And even then, who knows.
If it's real... is it real? We would see it. It would just be more distraction regardless.
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