WikiLeaks has created a new media landscape | Clay Shirky
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/04/wikileaks-created-new-media-landscape
#WikiLeaks affects one of the key tensions in democracies: the government needs to be able to keep secrets, but citizens need to know what is being done in our name. These requirements are fundamental and incompatible; like the trade-offs between privacy and security, or liberty and equality, different countries in different eras find different ways to negotiate those competing needs.