ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
ESSAY: WIKILEAKS
The whistle blowing website
WikiLeaks has been posting classified US documents for a while now causing
uproar in some quarters. Others, like The Guardian who is publishing the
revelations, have applauded the move stating that Julian Assange and his team
are “practicing journalism as it should be done”. Such whistle blowing websites
aren’t going away anytime soon; in fact, a new one, Open Leaks, was launched
last Monday. Due to the opportunities modern technology provides, they are
pretty much unstoppable which leaves us with the following question: are they
doing a public service or are they doing more harm than good?
Write an essay in
which you discuss the advantages and disadvantages of such whistle blowing
websites. Use the points below and any others you wish. Remember to include
your thesis statement in the introduction, and topic sentences at the beginning
of each paragraph of the development.
Refer to my second blog, The Essay Archive, for sample essays: https://theessayarchive.blogspot.com.tr/
Refer to my second blog, The Essay Archive, for sample essays: https://theessayarchive.blogspot.com.tr/
Advantages
1. Access to first
hand information about what is going on behind the scenes
2. Exposure of
unacceptable government practices ( torture, rendition, corruption, hypocrisy
and the like)
Disadvantages
1. Threat to national
security
2. Threat to world
security
3. Harm to
international relations
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