WikiLeaks: Transparency or Menace to Global Governance
Tues., March 8, 2011 - 6 p.m.
Toyota Auditorium
Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy
It’s irresponsible . . . This will ruin foreign relations . . . This is an attack on the
government’s ability to protect our country . . . They’re criminal!
All of these allegations have been lodged against Julian Assange and Wikileaks.
But is it irresponsible to promote transparency in government? Is it criminal to
expose government and military atrocities? And is worldwide media and
journalism moving into a new era in which exposure and accountability is more
widely encouraged?
Join us at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy as our panel explores
these questions and more.
Victor Ashe, JD, former Ambassador to Poland, whose private cables were
posted on WikiLeaks
Ben Bates, PhD, Professor, UTK Journalism & Electronic Media, on what
Wikileaks and other collaborative and citizen news sites means for transparency
and the future of journalism
David Brule, PhD, Assistant Professor, UTK Political Science, on the effect of
the leaked cables on US foreign relations
Jack McElroy, Editor, Knoxville News Sentinel
Dwight Teeter, PhD, Professor, UTK Journalism & Electronic Media, will moderate
the panel and offer his own perspective
Free & Open to the Public!
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