Check out the website http://www.wikileaks.com/ today and you will be presented with a rather disturbing but most definitely necessary video of US forces and some of their activities in Iraq. Who knew killing innocent civilians was going to be one of these activities? The media has historically played an important role in documenting and informing the public about conditions and progression of wars.
WikiLeaks is taking the use of social media and blasting out this kind of information to the public, most recently, with their leak of a video that highlights US forces killing two innocent Reuter journalists. What WikiLeaks has just done is use social media to present information to the public in a much quicker fashion than past news media (the reason why the Reuter journalists were there in the first place). Also, because of the video leak, WikiLeaks has more quickly sparked conversations about this incident over the web through social media. For example within 24 hours of the video leak, the clip netted more than 1.3 million views on YouTube. It looks like the US government and military will have to find better ways to cover-up their messes, because using the cover-up "a suicidal bombing" isn't going to get pass the growing power of social media and web journalism.
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