In 2006, Wikileaks was launched as an international nonprofit media organization. According to wikileaks website, it provides a new model of journalism. It is basically leaks top secrets document such as Iraq war that they get it from inside sources. So the question is: is it a reliable information?
An investigation story published on The Independent 8 of April 2010 answered this question; “when a US Army counter-intelligence officer recommended that whistleblowers who leaked to the site be fired, that report ended up on Wikileaks too!” Link. The website use the power of Internet to its advantage. Since the most secrets published in the website are scandals about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars that led it to be face to face with the US powers, but their effort to hunt the co founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange legally still failing. But that restricted Assange movement which made him refuse to go to Qatar for TV interview with Aljazeera network and instead, he made the interview in Ajazeera`s office in London because of the US influence on the Middle East, which can get him easily arrested.
Interview with Assange on Aljazeera, October 2010:
An investigation story published on The Independent 8 of April 2010 answered this question; “when a US Army counter-intelligence officer recommended that whistleblowers who leaked to the site be fired, that report ended up on Wikileaks too!” Link. The website use the power of Internet to its advantage. Since the most secrets published in the website are scandals about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars that led it to be face to face with the US powers, but their effort to hunt the co founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange legally still failing. But that restricted Assange movement which made him refuse to go to Qatar for TV interview with Aljazeera network and instead, he made the interview in Ajazeera`s office in London because of the US influence on the Middle East, which can get him easily arrested.
Interview with Assange on Aljazeera, October 2010:
Wikileaks might not be a kind of citizen journalism but it`s defini
tely a new way of publishing that use the power and freedom of Internet to make information flow freely between massive number of people around the world. Researchers use to wait about decades to put their hands on governments documents that usually released after about 30 years of its date. but now they find it relatively in the same time!
Whatever the criticism against Wikileaks, it is good to have a reliable source that can fight corruption. In an interview with Salon.com in March 2010, Assange said:” Of course, there's a personal psychology to it, that I enjoy crushing bastards. I like a good challenge”
tely a new way of publishing that use the power and freedom of Internet to make information flow freely between massive number of people around the world. Researchers use to wait about decades to put their hands on governments documents that usually released after about 30 years of its date. but now they find it relatively in the same time!
Whatever the criticism against Wikileaks, it is good to have a reliable source that can fight corruption. In an interview with Salon.com in March 2010, Assange said:” Of course, there's a personal psychology to it, that I enjoy crushing bastards. I like a good challenge”
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