A2 students should be aware of the media issues and debates that surround Wikileaks. This is an excellent piece of filmmaking and explores the ethical media issues surrounding this website. Assange explains his philosophy and motivation and the film explains how Wikileaks filters material to check its credibility. This would be a topic worthy of coursework and confronts a whole range of media issues and debates.
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Wikileaks is critical of mainstream media for failing to challenge and expose governments and corporations for their abuse of power. John Pilger is an Australian journalist who has been challenging the representations of the mainstream media for 40 years. He has made a series of powerful documentary films that all sentient human beings should digest. He has always challenged received wisdom and has always been appalled by state/corporate hypocrisy. On Friday 10th December 2010, Pilger published this article in The Guardian. Pilger questions the moral stance of media institutions and individual journalists. His new documentary ' The War You Don't See' examines the reporting of the Iraq war. Click on link below to access his article published in yesterday's Guardian:
Click on link below to access John Pilger's website:
Students should be aware of the arguments FOR and AGAINST Wikileaks. This links directly to the the impact of digital media at MEST3.
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