Video: 'Wikileaks and the Law' at New York Law School
BY Nick Judd | Friday, March 25 2011
WikiLeaks, and the way in which it is releasing over 250,000 sensitive U.S. State Department cables, proves that the interplay between citizens, states and the media is changing faster than the law has heretofore been able to track, experts on the intersection of politics, law, media and the Internet explained during a panel discussion we presented on Monday in partnership with New York Law School, "WikiLeaks and the Law."
In the video above, Berkman Center for Internet and Society co-director Yochai Benkler and Gabriel Shoenfeld, author of "Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law," former New York Times general counsel James Goodale, and University of Chicago Law School professor Geoffrey R. Stone battle over the topic and take questions from the audience.
Highlights include:
- Yochai Benkler describing the parameters of the new "networked fourth estate;"
- Gabriel Schoenfeld arguing that news organizations sometimes hurt national interests in a quest for transparency;
- Schoenfeld and Geoffrey Stone debating who, really, should be the arbiters of what remains secret and what is made public — and who those arbiters are now.
