# I don’t think Wikileaks is choosing their timing.

They are a repository for leaked material. The value of the leaked material is
occasionally useful as a PR strategy to get more support…

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I don’t think Wikileaks is choosing their timing. They are not, and have never
claimed to be, a journalistic outfit: if they were, they would assert control
over their material and choose particular material to release (which they do
not).

They are a repository for leaked material. The value of the leaked material is
occasionally useful as a PR strategy to get more support, but they have no
particular problem hosting uninteresting leaks — which is most of what they
supply.

Don’t compare them to the New York Times; instead, compare them to MegaUpload.

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [August 22,
2016](https://medium.com/p/fe7bd0c75dd9).

[Canonical link](https://medium.com/@enkiv2/i-dont-think-wikileaks-is-
choosing-their-timing-fe7bd0c75dd9)

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