Jargon Watch: Asymmetric journalism
The Giga Om blog credits the phrase to the New York Times’ David Carr as a way of describing the relationship between Wikileaks and the mainstream media partners involved in disclosing the Afghanistan war logs.
…the source of information is also a publisher, but also works together with traditional media to make secret data public for society’s benefit.
Cross-posted from my personal blog.
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