The Afghanistan War Logs Released by Wikileaks, the World's First Stateless News Organization

(Blog Post) In media history up to now, the press is free to report on what the powerful wish to keep secret because the laws of a given nation protect it. But Wikileaks is able to report on what the powerful wish to keep secret because the logic of the Internet permits it. This is new. Full Story »

Posted by Jon Mitchell - via Jen Preston, Alexis Madrigal, Jay Rosen, Kaizar Campwala (t), Joe Bonner (t), Jeppe Kabell (t), Jeremy Caplan (t), Ray Nichols (t), Wil Kristin (t), Jon Mitchell (t), Kristi Hancock (t), Peter Avalos (t), Josh_Young (t), Malorie Jae Lucich (t), Megan Taylor (t), Joey Baker (t), Rachel Fus (t), barbara trummpinski-roberts (t), Donica Mensing (t), Subramanya Sastry (f), Fabrice Florin (f), sahajajnana thirthaji (f), Shams Kazi (f), David Fox (f), Kaizar Campwala (f)

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by Jon Mitchell - Jul. 26, 2010

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.

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