Comments on: Like It or Not, WikiLeaks is a Media Entity

By: Milton Ramirez,Ed.D.

Milton Ramirez,Ed.D. — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 04:56:00 +0000

“WikiLeaks is fundamentally a journalistic entity, and as such it deserves our protection.” http://t.co/2We5OJuR

By: Clinton: We Love Net Freedom, Unless It Involves WikiLeaks: Tech News and Analysis «

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:05:15 +0000

[...] That said, however, the Secretary of State also went out of her way to defend the U.S. government’s approach to WikiLeaks, which has involved not only imprisoning the man who allegedly leaked thousands of diplomatic cables (former Army officer Bradley Manning), but also going after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by any means available. The U.S. Department of Justice has been working on a legal case involving the Espionage Act, despite the fact that publishing classified documents is not actually a crime under U.S. law, Plus, if the DOJ is successful, the same charges would apply to the New York Times and other media outlets who have also published the cables. [...]

By: NYT’s Keller Almost Ready to Admit WikiLeaks Is Journalism: Tech News and Analysis «

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:04:37 +0000

[...] reluctantly — coming around to the view that we have been arguing for some time: namely, that WikiLeaks is effectively a media entity, and that what it does qualifies as journalism (the faculty of Columbia’s School of [...]

By: DoJ Subpoena Proves Twitter’s Value — and Its Weakness: Tech News and Analysis «

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 22:52:17 +0000

[...] All of this makes it even more important that Twitter has forced the government’s attempts out into the light. One would hope that Facebook and Google — the latter of whom has talked a lot in the past about its commitment to freedom of speech, and has also taken action in China to protest that government’s digital surveillance of its citizens — would also come clean about any court orders they have received, especially when the DoJ appears determined to make a case that could easily entrap virtually anyone, up to and including reporters for the New York Times. [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:25:02 +0000

Sorry to disapoint you guy’s but Wikileaks is looking more and more like a CIA disinformation front every day!

http://wakeupcallfortruthseekers.wordpress.com/2010/12/24/wikileaks%E2%80%99-assange%E2%80%99s-lawyer-has-connections-to-rothschilds/

By: Is What WikiLeaks Does Journalism? Good Question: Tech News «

Is What WikiLeaks Does Journalism? Good Question: Tech News « — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 19:00:40 +0000

[...] — has been dis-aggregated or atomized; in other words, split into its component parts, parts that include what WikiLeaks does. In some cases, these may be things that we didn’t even realize were separate parts of the [...]

By: Carsten

Carsten — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 13:17:13 +0000

how would i have known about that CIA/Germany/El-Khasim case? well try reading the newspaper. This story was all over the German and some other european newspapers years ago (when this was a story). btw also the term for the German chancellor Merkel as teflon chancellor in some of the cables did not come as a surprise in Germany because that was a term introduced in the German media and then used by one of the US embassy guys in a cable. so no news again.

maybe if we all read the news and care about what is going on around us rather than limiting our news intake on sites that have wiki in their name or on pseudo news sites like fox news, or on blogs that tend to just rehash news then we would have more transparency.

Transparency is work … you will have to read, your will have to get all the information to understand facts. i honestly don’t believe that the main reason for lack of traspaency in the US today is too little information or too much withheld information but the laziness of the people to care and pay attention. what makes wikileaks stand out is that like a new ipad it is cool and fun to have all this stuff.

By: Panagiotis Atmatzidis

Panagiotis Atmatzidis — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:36:12 +0000

Given the current circumstances of “media censorship” that most media are willing to endorse and play “nice” with whoever stays control, I think that wikileaks and similar ‘services’ are more than just a favor to people: These services are a need.

Tell how exactly would you know that the USA embassy pressed the Germans not to sue CIA officials via interpol for the El-Khasim case.

Oh wait, this… Didn’t happen to you, so it’s like it didn’t happen, right?

By: This Week in Review: The WikiBacklash, information control and news, and a tightening paywall » Nieman Journalism Lab

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:02:07 +0000

[...] GigaOM’s Mathew Ingram and Salon’s Dan Gillmor made similar points about the parallel between WikiLeaks’ [...]

By: Is WikiLeaks breaking the law and putting Americans at risk? « The Scarce Man

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:54:12 +0000

[...] the heart of the matter in a debate over whether or not WikiLeaks is a legitimate news organization. Matthew Ingram at Gigaom, along with Dan Gillmor from Salon, has argued that WikiLeaks is a media entity and deserving of [...]