"The only route that a journalist, 'and must comply with' the train ..."
Albert Londres
As so often with striking and disturbing phenomena, as is the case, Wikileaks and its guru Julian Assange, the audience is divided strictly into two factions. About condemnation, coming to believe the site's activity a challenge to national security and Assange a new generation of terrorist, and who welcomes the advent of a new era sanctified by the presence of a lone knight, heroic and fearless.
As far as I am concerned are among those who serve in the second row, with some distinction: I have signed petitions for Assange, wrote articles about him and I drank the sources of Wikileaks. But with all due respect to Julian and thankfulness for hidden files intelligible hours, I do not think, as someone said, this is a revolution. Above all, I do not think Wikileaks will change journalism and journalists, even if, indeed, today we know more. But I think that Wikileaks is a boon for historians who need to document much more than we journalists that news is often confided to the short routes, in some passage or some coffee. On the way short. If indeed we used to consider the news of the secret cable to work with, because it is (was) a secret so attractive port of call, would be the end of journalism, a profession already in big crisis ... Read all about Lettera22 
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