You could be right --- but I also think you could be looking at it the wrong way. (bear with me)
In the modern era (and modern "news cycle"), incredibly massive events that would have been talked about for months at a time (and written about for years), completely disappear into the abyss only a week later. (and are no longer discussed)
This is because of the sheer volume of content (primarily digital and social media) that most people are absorbing every second of every day. People's limited attention spans (we're still barely evolved from hunters and gatherers) can barely stay on top of the incomprehensible amounts of information they're receiving all the time, primarily due to their smartphones (which didn't even exist a decade ago -- there were no "smartphones", and barely any "social media" 12 years ago).
So in this sense, had Wikileaks (or Project Veritas) released all their information at once, it may have had a "bigger" impact in the short term.
But people can only process so much, and we quickly "forget" even massive things now under the sheer weight of information we're constantly receiving. So you could be right, or wrong. We're going to find out in the coming weeks.
