of Pino Cabras - from 3D, insert "Earth" .
The news leaked and uncomfortable now dripping from the world of secrets and power, those of Wikileaks are new journalism? A new way of thinking about democracy? The revelations of the season is a return of scoop, after thirty years for the Washington Post's laurels on the old Watergate scandal and the New York Times on the "Pentagon Papers" that had put bare the Vietnam War.
New blurted are heroes fighting for truth lying structures and violent? Or is there more? To do that we need to understand the circumstances that make possible the use of the revelations.
news explodes, it bursts with great freedom, and power can not control it. The bad pass some trouble. Just like to believe, when we see the cruelty of the wars that pit the veil lying propaganda and shows its horror, and then here we see the Pentagon to close Wikileaks schemer. The old-style censorship is losing ground.
We know that the documents are to squeal officials, lawyers, officers, employees, or even ordinary citizens who hold sensitive information to be made known. They are a mix between "confident", "conscientious objectors" and "political activists". Wikileaks makes them anonymous by encrypting data. The community site, hundreds of people, make cross-checks, or even make new alliances with old newspapers as The New York Times.
Julian Assange of Wikileaks media becomes a new hero: because it goes well the ant community, but the system wants to see instead of the ant queen and her heroes manufacture of paper. The hair is so white Assange on the covers of mainstream media. But do not forget
context. The secret services are information services, and enter the circuit of huge flows of news media that can create consequences studied. Consortium of secret agents fighting each other - even within each service - may themselves violate the hidden secrets and see the effect it does.
The generally accepted idea of \u200b\u200bWatergate, for example, is that the Anglo-Saxon free journalism, watchdog of power, "has exposed Nixon. Instead, the scandal was driven by "deep throats" internal all'establishment USA and its power games, skilful in the president put in half the time, until he resign. The journalist Russ Baker in 2009 published a book, "Secrets of Family," which shows the ambiguous role of George Bush Sr. has always been linked to the CIA, when inserting Nixon for his own purposes and use the momentum of the journalists' heroes "as Bob Woodward, well-chosen elite. An icon of U.S. journalism, Dan Rather, after reading the book admitted: "I had to rethink even the events that I saw with my own eyes."
Wikileaks is vulnerable as it can be collected when the police tip-off that a band with well-controlled ago thwart a rival clan. Who grabs the helm of Wikileaks, as does Assange, reflects the extreme difficulty contradictory to hold together a system that is anarchic but in need of order, ready to destroy the secrets but forced to lock down the identity of the sources: that is forced, that unthinkable paradox, to yield new secrets. It is an impossible mission, conducted among the professional secrecy and covert operations. In fact, the organization loses pieces. Pandora's box that can not be an unstable place.
This is the critical distance, even distrust, with which it is necessary to observe the phenomenon Wikileaks. However, it is still a haven of information on which documents in transit if true and verified, that concern those who plan wars. Their value is substantial, if taken one by one. But then that should be incorporated in a context to interpret them. Otherwise, there are those who contextualizes them for his purposes. Maybe for new wars.
Based on 3D, insert "Earth", October 23, 2010.
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