Tuesday 30 November 2010

The New Source of Facts

I find it very interesting to see that the media has already started sourcing a new factual referent--Wikileaks documents. The best possible example I can give is a CNN column by David Frum who writes that essentially ' ____ is true because WikiLeaks said so'. Apparently, according to him, if you can find anything in WikiLeaks to support your cause, then your case must be true. Amazing. I hope I can find something in those hundreds of thousands of government documents that that says that we should all eat 1/2 pound of cheese a day, or that this winter will be a short one.

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