The fringe website WikiLeaks managed to unscramble the helicopter attack video (see post below) that has been viewed more than two million times on YouTube. The New York Times has a story about the site:
"By releasing such a graphic video, which a media organization had tried in vain to get through traditional channels, WikiLeaks has inserted itself in the national discussion about the role of journalism in the digital age. Where judges and plaintiffs could once stop or delay publication with a court order, WikiLeaks exists in a digital sphere in which information becomes instantly available.
“'The most significant thing about the release of the Baghdad video is that several million more people are on the same page,' with knowledge of WikiLeaks, said Lisa Lynch, an assistant professor of journalism at Concordia University in Montreal, who recently published a paper about the site. 'It is amazing that outside of the conventional channels of information something like this can happen.'”
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