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Archive for April 28th, 2008

An invoice for Chinese rockets and bombs, courtesy Wikileaks

Newsworthiness. Understanding it is essential to success in journalism.
Whoever decides which documents to release at Wikileaks has a solid understanding of newsworthiness. Take this recent upload. It’s an invoice for Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Defense, charging the country for a  shipment of Chinese rockets, bombs and rounds of mortar.
Most days this document might not draw much [...]