Meet Julian Assange of Wikileaks
“Journalism should be more like science,” says the founder of Wikileaks who has drawn the ire of many political authorities for exposing various cases of corruption and fraud.
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“Journalism should be more like science,” says the founder of Wikileaks who has drawn the ire of many political authorities for exposing various cases of corruption and fraud. “Is WikiLeaks the journalistic model for the future? Assange gives a characteristically lateral answer. ‘All over the world the barriers between what is inside an organisation and outside an organisation are being smoothed out. In the military, the use of contractors means that what is the military and what is not the military is smoothed out. Newswise, you see the same trend – what is the newspaper and what is not the newspaper?'”
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