I know this is unpopular... But is assange a "journalist"?

To me , assange is a publisher of others sacrifices and hard work . That's it. He has a platform that people recognize , so some leak to him, but he's far from a journalist. He can t even secure the docs leaked to him, as evidenced in the Manning case . Let alone edit and redact them... again, shown in the Manning case . If he worked for a real journalistic outlet he would have been fired long before he holed up in the embassy to avoid rape allegations.

The guy made a website. He exposed 0 without the efforts of others. He's not a "whistleblower" as many claim... He's a guy with a website.

Don't get me wrong , I'm happy for some of what he's done, and I won't even get in to (somewhat) current events... But Julian is an attention whore and always has been