Alan Rusbridger: The Snowden Leaks and the Public

The recently released Dreamworks film about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks is cutely called The Fifth Estate, conjuring up a quasi-formal status for the new forms of digital publishing that now exist well beyond the familiar boundaries of the Fourth Estate. Greenwald does not much like being described as a member of the Fifth Estate—largely because there’s a persistent attempt by people in politics and law as well as journalism to limit protections (for example, over sources or secrets) to people they regard (but struggle to define) as bona fide journalists. But he recognizably does have a foot in each camp, old and new.

Mein Blog befasst sich in einem umfassenden Sinn mit dem Verhältnis von Wissen, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft. Ein besonderes Augenmerk richte ich dabei auf die Aktivitäten des Medien- und Dienstleistungskonzern Bertelsmann und der Bertelsmann Stiftung.