WikiLeaks
Since 2010 when WikiLeaks released a video showing American Forces killing Iraqi civilians, there has been multiple attempts to silence the organization. The organizations ability to stay afloat and continue to source and release insightful documents is remarkable, the story built on the 2010 Afghan war logs has uncovered yet another level of "Kill everything that moves".
In my opinion WikiLeaks is far from perfect, but they are able to release information that I think the world should know, from what I watched they're are mixed emotions towards WikiLeaks some people accuse them of being bad, but a majority of people see the good in the organization.
I think the information on WikiLeaks can be trusted, because it is secure Government information that they clearly did not want the world to know. I think Journalists may struggle with some of the information because it does deal with a lot of secure Government things, and they might get in trouble for writing on the topic. I think that this sort of thing can be hard to report on in news media .
The danger of discounting or ignoring WikiLeaks can be hard when much larger new organisations still can't compete with the groups level of classified information, the value of the organization is not just uncovering new information, it is the groups published material which is one of the most important archives of our time.
States across the world talk of democracy and free speech but restrict information and it's messengers, "This war on Whistleblowers is not ancillary to Journalism, but it directly affects it" says Trevor Timm I agree with his statement because it is the Journalists who get directly affected. He ends by saying that "It makes it much more difficult for the pubic to get the information it needs". WikiLeaks remains at the front of this battle.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/13/wikileaks-not-perfect-but-more-important-than-ever-for-free-speech
In my opinion WikiLeaks is far from perfect, but they are able to release information that I think the world should know, from what I watched they're are mixed emotions towards WikiLeaks some people accuse them of being bad, but a majority of people see the good in the organization.
I think the information on WikiLeaks can be trusted, because it is secure Government information that they clearly did not want the world to know. I think Journalists may struggle with some of the information because it does deal with a lot of secure Government things, and they might get in trouble for writing on the topic. I think that this sort of thing can be hard to report on in news media .
The danger of discounting or ignoring WikiLeaks can be hard when much larger new organisations still can't compete with the groups level of classified information, the value of the organization is not just uncovering new information, it is the groups published material which is one of the most important archives of our time.
States across the world talk of democracy and free speech but restrict information and it's messengers, "This war on Whistleblowers is not ancillary to Journalism, but it directly affects it" says Trevor Timm I agree with his statement because it is the Journalists who get directly affected. He ends by saying that "It makes it much more difficult for the pubic to get the information it needs". WikiLeaks remains at the front of this battle.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/13/wikileaks-not-perfect-but-more-important-than-ever-for-free-speech
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