Comments on: Is WikiLeaks the Beginning of a New Form of Media?

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

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:04:41 +0000

[...] the kind of journalism that the New York Times engages in, but it clearly has a role to play in the expanded media ecosystem we see emerging around us. And the fact that WikiLeaks is effectively a stateless entity (the [...]

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Secret agents - Tshering Tobgay’s Blog — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 05:52:18 +0000

[...] to silence WikiLeaks and those who want to see it grow will get worse. But no matter who wins, the media landscape has been changed forever. Journalism will never be the same. The demand for transparency and accountability, [...]

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

Is What WikiLeaks Does Journalism? Good Question: Tech News « — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 19:00:22 +0000

[...] argument can be made that WikiLeaks is at least an instrument of journalism. In other words, it is a part of the larger ecosystem of news media that has been developing with the advent of blogs, wikis, Twitter and all the other [...]

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Why Was the WikiLeaks App Pulled From App Store?: Apple « — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:31:01 +0000

[...] enough time, it seems like everyone will eventually become entangled in the ever-sprawling WikiLeaks story, which began back in late November when the whistle-blowing site started publishing a trove of [...]

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:53:50 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Al. I think you are right that WikiLeaks is filling a gap that has been left by the traditional media.

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:50:52 +0000

Thanks, Lucian — I agree completely.

By: 10 Things on the iPhone 5 Wish List: Apple «

10 Things on the iPhone 5 Wish List: Apple « — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:01:23 +0000

[...] If you use your iPhone for every little thing, you probably use the passcode lock to keep your personal data safe. For the curious, the current four digit passcode software lock offers 1,048,576 possible combinations. That’s probably good-enough for most people already accustomed to having to memorize PINs for their credit and debit cards, but I’d like to see this taken much further. A combination of facial recognition, bioelectrical impedance analysis and voice print identification could make an iPhone far more secure than it is today. It would certainly help sell to government customers after the WikiLeaks fiasco. [...]

By: Alex Stone

Alex Stone — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 08:59:13 +0000

Very interesting article but Wikileaks itself will never become a new form of media because by definition a medium is a channel through which information is disseminated. As Wikileaks primarily uses the Internet as its channel, it is therefore using that as its medium. Wikileaks is simply a new source of information. As your article suggests it is a media middleman not a medium.

Again as Lucian says print media is dying and something will take it place. Print media may be dying but investigative journalism is not and what is taking print media’s place is the Internet media and that’s been happening for years.

As a journalist and former ‘medium’(newspaper) owner print and internet are just the forms of communication we use – the rest is all the same thing – information.

What Wikileaks is doing is creating a new more unrestrained form of information – this is what everyone is finding so interesting or dangerous depending on which side of the wall you sit.

By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 22:22:14 +0000

There is so much overwhelming support for WikiLeaks that I’m sure it will soon have its followers and the governments will be left with only a few options – one of which is to find better ways to protect their secret information.

By: Michael Guy

Michael Guy — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 21:58:56 +0000

What high official(s) in the US State Department and/or White House have an antipathy towards the US military and seem quite willing to jeopardize the lives and limbs of our soldiers and allies? Who would be the modern-day, neo-Tory, Benedict Arnold in our government and give away state and military secrets to antagonistic foreign governments and terrorist ? Who has such a hatred of our military and an antipathy towards our nationalistic, capitalistic republic? Who would rather have us ruled by some elite foreign House of lords rather than exist as an independant republic? I can think of two prime candidates;
For example, I think of a person who graduated from Yale with a “power to the people” revolutionary fist on their graduation gown. This person married an American who marched for the World Peace institute against our military in Vietnam ( but then, so did Senator Kerry). In the book, Kruschev remembers, Nikita Kruschev claimed that this World Peace Institute was a ruse and front for KGB propaganda, founded by Joseph Stalin. From there, their entire careers were renown for their dislike of our military and our national sovereignty. The UN always superceded America in their allegiance.
And who has the easy task of making President Obama as commander-in-chief and major treaty negotiator look inept, incompetent or even subversive? First our military plans and tactics were revealed, perhaps with the aid of someone in the Senate Armed Services Committee? Now, not only our soldiers, but anyone who cooperated with America will be on a hit list, either figuratively as in politics or in reality. The friends of America will now be assassinated , thanks to Wikileaks and their friend(s) and source(s) in the White House or in the State Department. Who would benefit from the enfeeblement of our President as both a world leader and a national one?
But could the source be a major, Trojan Horse, politician sent ti high offiice for the exact purpose of betraying America and its nationalistic, capitalistic, Constitutional republic ? Could this person’s sole agenda be to make America a mere fief and vasal state to an empire of elite, foreign aristocrats and plutocrats?
In any case, it is apparent Wikileaks has the collusion and cooperation of some high official(s) who are probably both liberal and Democrat.
Michael Guy