WIKILEAKS: NEWS IN THE NETWORKED ERA

摘要

With the release of its 'Collateral Murder' video in April 2010 website Wikileaks set in motion a chain of events that would see it rise from being a little-known publisher of last resort to the most talked about whistle-blower since Deep Throat sent the Nixon administration into freefall. Showing graphic footage of 12 people, including two Reuters journalists, being shot dead by a US Apache helicopter gunman during an airstrike on Baghdad, the video sent Shockwaves around the globe and proved to be a brash, provocative announcement of Wikileaks' future intentions.