A FREE IRRESPONSIBLE PRESS: WIKILEAKS AND THE BATTLE OVER THE SOUL OF THE NETWORKED FOURTH ESTATE





Who is this person on the left?

He is Julian Assange, the founders of Wikileaks.

His bravery has put his lives in risk, why? Because he reveals or invades the TRUTH behind some certain top secrets and humilated some of the governments in America.

Personally, I think "Wikileak" has given me another way to interpret it which is the "humanitarian". Simply, there is a lot of matter that we do not know is better than knowing it. The truth has been always the cruelest, like the case collateral murder.

Check out this link : http://www.collateralmurder.com/
It has 3 videos inside this link, and one of the videos is about the civilians are being killed. Basically Wikileak which have these videos are also having the information supports from military whistleblowers. Wikileak has to ensure the information which leaked is must to get the attention from the people around the world. In other words, all of us are deserved to know. According to this link, it has also mentioned that there are quite a big number of journalist being killed in Iraq because the journalists' camera have been wrongly seen as weapon which turned them into tragedy.

In addition, Philip Shennon, he is "a former investigate reporter for The New York Times" (PBS, 2010). Throughout the interview between Philip Shenon and Judy Woodruff, he has discussed quite a lot of information about the connection between Julian Assange and Wikileak. Indeed, I think Philip Shenon has said out a point which is really good which is "And, so, when he said I -- we -- we played earlier a quote from him where he said it's -- he said, these documents will show the true nature of this war. Then the public can take steps to address the problems.So, it sounds as if he has an agenda." (PBS, 2010).

 The full interview link: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/july-dec10/wiki_07-26.html
 Guys, check it out. I think it is quite interesting to know more about Julian Assange.

To conclude, I am really salute on how Julian Assange being honest to himself and also to the public. Because I think the reason that he created Wikileak is to let the public to know the truth instead of pretending like don't know. Indeed, he might hope to get the public to think of ways to overcome the problem or anyhow like how Philip Shenon mentioned in the interview.

As a matter of fact, if we think in positive ways, no doubt we can know the truth. In contrast, it would just bring out the arguments between government and the society. So I think is kind of paradoxical to say Wikileak is really good to public. It is just depend on how we view on it.

How Twitter Will Change the Way We live

How Twitter change the way we live? Simply, Twitter is one of the social networking sites that majority of people have an account for it. In fact, why Twitter is enumerates as social networks? It is because of the principle of "followers". Everyone would follow their friends profile and follow up their status.

Secondly, we could see on the chatters' interesting topic everyday instead of sms or call to each other. What's more, the link-sharing is also one of the element that able to provide the great impact to our life. Because we could make discussion on it and automatically it could attracts others to comment on it too.

With these 3 combinations of element, it has reflected on how we perform our actions to Twitter. As Steven Johnson mentioned: "The most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it's doing to us. It's what we're doing it." In other words, it just mean Twitter has provide us these kind of functions, it is just depend on how we utilized it. It would not automatically help us to create the boundaries of the network, is US who need to work on it.

Whenever we saw news about plane crash, gossip item and et cetera. They will just come across us via Twitter which they posted the links and share to all the followers. It is even faster than getting the information through the newspaper. It is because whenever the first person who get to know the news, they has become the "citizen journalism". They will share the news via social networking sites and is about to start the discussion with various people from different countries.  It is like how Steven Johnson said, "injecting Twitter into that conversation fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. It added a second layer of discussion and brought a wider audience into what would have been a private exchange."

To conclude, Twitter has involved the people nowadays into the global scale of network. Every moments and everytimes people are discussing, posting, commenting on different topic which give us the great impact to our life. Everyone has the rights to respond on a particular topic, there is no restriction. Indeed, it is just depend on the way we express and react.

Don't you agree it?