Original insights into the meaning of Wikileaks and their newest revelations from Afghanistan. Rosen also makes some disturbing but thought-provoking observations about public reactions (or lacks thereof) to such "big revelations," predicting that the response to the Afghanistan documents will be disappointingly muted, just as they were to the Washington Post's "Top Secret America" story last week, because the problems exposed are too daunting to fix.

Excellent context about the recent release by WikiLeaks of 75,000 classified military reports from the Afghan war. This blog post makes insightful observations about this leak, why it was released through big media partners, reactions from the White House -- and what all this means for the future of journalism.

It's a story about people that want to do good journalism. The problem is that the Wikileaks site is so jammed that it is difficult to access. The move to give the information, in particular, to Der Spiegle is brilliance. And this blog. We are on a new era of journalism.

Every thinking person should read this. Rosen’s article is almost staggering how it jars our conventional thinking about gate-keepers, information, distribution, control, accuracy, audiences, and the media. If the global internet is finally becoming the modern equivalent of the Athenian agora in which ideas, information, and news can be made unfettered of distortions and freely distributed, seen, understood, and discussed by everyone, what does this do governments, and to the likes of Fox Spews and all the other corporate news media, which so pander to government and special interest controls? That is, as long as the internet is kept free of looming avaricious telecommunications corporations salivating to grab control, ... More »