Al Jazeera does a WikiLeaks
p2pnet view P2P | Freedom:- With Anonymous online activists galvanizing people initially in Tunisia and, more recently, further afield into confrontations with the despots who’ve held them in thrall for so many decades, the Arabic TV news network Al Jazeera says its new Al Jazeera Transparency Unit (AJTU) “aims to mobilize its audience”.
Almost exactly two years ago it made some of its news video material available for use by TV, web sites and “other users” under a Creative Commons license.
Now it’s doing a WikiLeaks, inviting people in the Arab world and elsewhere to “submit all forms of content (documents, photos, audio & video clips, as well as ‘story tips’) for editorial review and, if merited, online broadcast and transmission on our English and Arabic-language broadcasts.”
It goes on >>>
We believe that this initiative will allow Al Jazeera’s supporters to shine light on notable and newsworthy government and corporate activities which might otherwise go unreported.
From human rights to poverty to official corruption, AJTU will fairly evaluate and pursue all leads and content submitted, without geographical, political, cultural, or religious bias.
All submitted content is subjected to a rigorous vetting and authentication process that encompasses respect for individual privacy, contextualization, and fierce adherence to our tradecraft commitment of “journalism of depth.”
Al Jazeera has also gone to great lengths to protect the identities of our sources. Files will be uploaded and stored on our secure servers, and accessed only by journalists working for the Al Jazeera Transparency Unit.
For more information about how to upload files, and the security measures in place to protect your identity, click here.
As part of the project, Al Jazeera says it’s released nearly 2,000 internal documents, “minutes, e-mails, memos and more”, from a decade of negotiations between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority.
“You can search our database for key words, or browse the papers by dates, locations and participants”, it says.
Good one.
(Cheers, RW)
further afield – Anonymous in Albania, January 24, 2011
video material available – Al Jazeera goes Creative Commons, January 19, 2009
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January 25th, 2011 at 11:51 am
Al Jazeera … if its meant to be a middle east channel, then why does it look, sound and feel so western? What is so wrong about the Islamic dress, customs or otherwise that they need to be bastardised into this format called “news”? Why is it that no matter what country I travel to I can see the same formats, dress and style. Who is so interested in making sure everyone becomes so standardised? We should never take things at face value and we need to know who is paying for what in order to understand the motivations behind these large organisations.
The very idea that Al-Jazeera can now muster popular support and mood to dislodge information that would otherwise not be forthcoming fills me with dread at the thought of how effective that information could be in altering political and social status quo. Especially if that information is given to the relevant agencies who would pay/kill for such information.
All throughout history the tried and tested method has been divide and conquer. Piss people off and get them to subscribe to one side or the other. We need to start thinking and fixing for ourselves … no other fu**er is going to do it …
January 26th, 2011 at 2:27 pm
they have an-jazera english and i read if often