Posts by giovanni tiso
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Hard News: Popular Paranoiac Politics, in reply to Hihi,
obvious fakes like "john keys from wellington", shaelee is a poo eater, test test from Wellington
It just so happens that all of these people live on my street.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to andin,
But we invented SPORT!
We need to invent a sport in which the winner seizes control of the loser's oil fields.
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People don't get Blues Brothers references no more. It's a sad commentary on these troubled times we live in.
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Are you sure you didn't send them to the baseball stadium?
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Tim Hannah,
If the release and resulting discussions are part of a planned revolutionary media strategy on the part of wikileaks, then taking part in the contextualisation is simply a role in someone else’s pr strategy
The alternative being what, the status quo? I think WikiLeaks will never have its say. It will compete with other media, and its narrative will compete with theirs and those of our governments. I also think it would be a very cynical person that looked back on the Minton report and the war logs, if not this latest release, and say that it's stuff that should have remained secret.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Russell Brown,
It does irk me when Assange declares in interviews that no one has ever been harmed by one of its leaks and it's received as inalienable truth. The honest answer would be that they take every precaution but in the end they don't really know.
He has challenged WikiLeaks' detractors to bring proof to the contrary, which is not unreasonable if one looks at the war logs and the the staggering evidence of civilian killings and not investigated collateral damage that was allowed to happen and in some cases quite carefully documented. But that's not to say you don't have a point.
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They called Reporters sans Frontieres, "reporters sans facts" - that seemed tarter than the tweets actually used in the article.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Tim Hannah,
And the idea that I'm just some pair of eyes to scan these releases in order to make the authoritarian producers of them stop talking to each other seems somehow dehumanising.
Really? Because I would have thought that the community involvement that comes into making sense of the information, giving it context - a task that is not devolved solely to professional journalists - is actually the opposite of dehumanising.
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One of the things I miss the most about feudalism are the electric buses.
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Well, has this piece from the Atlantic been linked to yet? Because it still puts the campaign to discredit Assange front and centre but at the service of making excellent points about what WikiLeaks represents in relation to conventional journalism.
(When I say "campaign to discredit Assange" I don't mean to imply that his legal troubles in Sweden are part of a conspiracy, or that the accusations are false or trivial - although regrettably the author of the article does.)