OpenLeaks Will Undermine Journalism - infoSync World

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'; document.write(s); return; } --> OpenLeaks is an emerging leak site that will undermine leak coverage, indicating that it'll soon be business as usual for newspapers.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been accused of having a political agenda by former WikiLeaks contributors, and the latter are now reportedly planning to launch a new leak site called OpenLeaks. The idea is to let newspaper publishers be in charge of documents that'll be leaked.

Yesterday, we said that people will soon forget about WikiLeaks, and it looks like OpenLeaks will contribute to that fact. Of course, OpenLeaks' approach to leaking documents will not be a tool for journalists to protect their credibility, but rather become an information soup where political agendas will blossom.

If it's true that Julian Assange personally removed these people from the WikiLeaks team, we can only applaud that decision. In fact, if Julian Assange should be accused of anything, it should be the fact that he has worked too closely with newspapers lately.

WikiLeaks only works when leaked documents are not redacted. In other words, whoever pressured Julian Assange to redact leaked documents can only be seen as contributors to the gradual death of WikiLeaks. It should be as simple as if a document is regarded too sensitive, it won't be leaked at all. This was also Julian Assange's principal up until newspapers got involved in the process.

Of course, you won't get mainstream media publishers to talk about their agendas, and OpenLeaks will obviously not leak their agendas, as the publishers themselves will control the entire process. Newspapers as well as former WikiLeak contributors involved in the leak process are now gradually turning into their own worst enemy.

That said, it's both important and interesting to see how people in significant positions across several industries have handled a real crisis though. For tech enthusiasts like us, it has also certainly given us valuable insight as far as how strong or weak various frameworks are when it really matters.