An exciting time to be a journalist and citizen of the world. Wikileaks is showing the corporate media that transparency and real reporting is the only way forward, if they want to remain relevant and not tied to establishment interests: The Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, said today that the organisation is working through a “backlog”…
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Times buries civilian killings in Wikileaks story
Note the difference between the New York Times and Guardian dealing with the Wikileaks revelations over Afghanistan.
Real journalists welcome Wikileaks and don’t feel threatened by its power
For those wondering about the history of Wikileaks reporting, I’ve been writing about the website for years, including an interview with founder Julian Assange in 2008.
Wikileaks reveals the supposed trail of Bin Laden in Afghanistan (maybe)
Wired reveals yet another angle of the invaluable Wikileaks information dump: Most of the reports catalog counterinsurgency’s basics — weapons caches found, gun battles fought, village elders chatted up. But buried in the tens of thousands of U.S. military logs dropped Sunday night by WikiLeaks are incidents that are anything but routine: a suspected chemical…
Is a journalist’s job to please or offend the White House over Wikileaks? Obvious, really
Wikileaks, the world’s first stateless news organisation. And a modern dilemma for hyper-connected media companies, so used to being on the drip feed of the establishment: The… WikiLeaks report presented a unique dilemma to the three papers given advance copies of the 92,000 reports included in the Afghan war logs — the New York Times, Germany’s…
Wikileaks shows up more corporate reporters
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to Der Spiegel on the motivations of doing what most journalists do not: We are clear about what we will publish and what we will not. We do not have adhoc editorial decisions. We always release the full primary sources to our articles. What other press organization has such exacting standards?…
Wikileaks releases the new Pentagon Papers?
The Wikileaks story about leaked documents over the Afghan war is racing across the world. Some analysis and further news is here, here, here and here. Releasing sensitive information in the age of the web is a marvel of new technology. Here the New York Times explains its reasoning behind publication. The job of journalists…
Wikileaks blows open the Afghan disaster
The power of the internet to prick the most powerful government in the world, its corrupt war, its shameful allies (including Australia) and blow wide open the nature of the Afghan engagement: A huge cache of secret US military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces…
More journalists must take risks, says Wikileaks head
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in the Guardian: There has been an unconscionable failure to protect sources. It is those sources who take all the risks. I was at a journalism conference a few months ago, and there were posters up saying a thousand journalists had been killed since 1944. That’s outrageous. How many policemen have…
The battle between Wikileaks and Miley Cyrus
According to this Canadian writer, Wikileaks has been largely ineffective in truly bringing change because of our incredibly short attention spans: The “collateral murder” video has been viewed almost 7m times on YouTube – that’s 128 times fewer than the video for Miley Cyrus’s Party in the USA. That comparison might seem silly, but it…