By Chase Madar
In could 2010, an intelligence analyst within the US Army's tenth Mountain department was once arrested on suspicion of leaking approximately part one million categorized executive files, together with the notorious "Collateral Murder" gunsight video and 260,000 nation division cables. After 9 months in solitary confinement, the suspect now awaits court-martial in citadel Leavenworth. he's 24, comes from Crescent, Oklahoma, and his identify is Bradley Manning.
Who is deepest top quality Bradley Manning? Why did he allegedly devote the biggest protection breach in American historical past - and why was once it really easy? Is Manning a traitor or a whistleblower? Is long term isolation an outrage to American values - or the recent norm? Are the leaks innovative or a sensational nonevent? that's the larger defense possibility, routinized elite secrecy or flashes of transparency? And what impression does new details particularly have?
The excellent leaks attributed to Bradley Manning are seen from many angles, from Tunisia to Guantnamo Bay, from Foggy backside to Baghdad to small-town Oklahoma. all over the world, the eloquent alleged act of 1 younger guy obliges electorate to invite themselves in the event that they have the perfect to understand what their govt is doing.
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Tailoring one story for print, web, video and audio Often, we will have to create versions of a story we are working on in a range of media – a text report, a video and an audio version. For speed we don’t want to make our audio and video versions too different. Indeed, if the audio track of our video will stand alone that’s great. We can take any given story and decide how best to tell it in each of the media at our disposal. We can create a video package, an audio package, a text report that links to them both and has an opportunity for the reader to get involved – by voting, commenting, chatting, linking or any number of other interactions.
Responses from readers to news items – via comments on stories, blog posts, emails and letters – can include new information that pushes a story forwards and gives something new to write about. Also, readers may raise subjects that you were unaware of. Tips from a reporter’s contacts are another important source of news. Contacts are people who know you well enough, or trust you enough, to give you stories in preference to other reporters. They may do so because they know that you will treat the story fairly, or that you will keep their name out of it if they have requested anonymity.
During the long wait for an election result, TV has to use endless shots of people hanging about in halls, and elaborate 3-D graphics. With multimedia journalism we choose the medium that best fits the story we are telling. If there aren’t any good pictures to be had, then we don’t have to use video or stills. If a story does not lend itself to a pictorial treatment, then we can use text to tell it. Each medium – text, video, stills and audio – has its strengths and weaknesses: ■ ■ 31 Broadly, text is good for explanation and analysis.