Showing posts with label journalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label journalism. Show all posts

Friday, October 22, 2010

The Iraq War Logs


So this is literally breaking as I type this, and I know you all aren't as obsessed with media consumption as I am, but something extremely significant is happening right now.

As you may or may not know, Wikileaks has been ramping up to unleash something around 400,000 leaked and previously classified dox on the Iraq war (unsurprisingly, the largest document leak in US military history). Major news outlets around the world including the New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Al Jazeera (links after the jump) and others have had complete access to all the documents for 10 weeks under condition of embargo until about 30 minutes ago. Here's the exciting part: simultaneously 5 of the most important news outlets in the world released their in-depth reporting on the information cache. Nothing like this has ever happened before. And everyone has some pretty damning discoveries.