Tag Archive: Wikileaks

Losing the Plot and Shooting the Messenger: Wikileaks and the Pretence of Ignorance

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One of the most disturbing aspects of the recent Wikileaks crisis has been watching adults holding high office and other educated and rational people shoot the messenger. Journalists, corporations, politicians, academics… all who… Continue reading

Delicious: The Wikileaks Cable Collection on Kindle at Amazon

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Really, you don’t believe me? WikiLeaks documents expose US foreign policy conspiracies. All cables with tags from 1- 5000 [Kindle Edition] Heinz Duthel (Author) Available on these devices * Text-to-Speech: Enabled * Don’t… Continue reading

How Wikileaks has woken up journalism. « Emily Bell(wether)

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How Wikileaks has woken up journalism. « Emily Bell(wether).

The Biggest Leak of All: Daniel Ellsberg, Julian Assange, The Simple Truth & Wikileaks

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Ellesberg quotes Dickens in the latest post on his blog, saying: “there is nothing quite so simple as the truth.” What has always made me wary of the likes of Ellsberg and Julian… Continue reading

Umberto Eco on Wikileaks

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Umberto Eco has to be one of my favourite people. An academic, an historian, a scholar in the field of semiotics, a novelist, he’s one of those educated and well-rounded people who’s opinion… Continue reading

Jay Rosen on Wikileaks

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I thought this was a very interesting and considered discussion on the impact and implications of Wikileaks. Jay Rosen is a press critic, a writer, and a professor of journalism at New York… Continue reading