John Young on Wed, 11 May 2016 05:52:07 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> "Offshore Leaks" clickthrough |
ICIJ's also states that much of the gargantuan leak is near-useless debris, a relatively small portion useful for investtigation, and even that requires sophisticated judgment to avoid miscontrual into scandalous outrage like that the early stories hyped and shamelessly flaunted with duplicitous charts, spidery diagrams, packs of keyboard peckers. No admission yet what percentage, or number of terabytes of data and 11.5 million files grandiosely announced, are worthy of consideration except for reams of fishwrap. It would be brave of ICIJ to backtrack its perfervid claims, restart its campaign on a more judicious footing and state what it has: what percentage or number of files are valid, accessible data, what is licit, illicit, legal and illegal among those files and data according to the laws of the countries involved, or if not that what study is needed to sort the legal from the criminal, and who or what organizations are qualified to make that assessment. This could if nothing else provide a corrective to over-zealous promotion of leaks, neglect of "shoe-leather" investigation, over-reliance upon laptop potato-couchism, at the expense of deeper public understanding and broader participation beyond commodified outrage and inflammation -- and weariness of too much bellowing for attention with dumps of spurious voluminous data and shoot from the lip polemics, trite headlines and shallow op-eds, calculated handwringing and botoxed indignation -- the industrialization of WikiLeakification, Snowdenization, Panama Paper Banana Republication. On the other hand it satisfying to graze among the 1.7M items released by ICIJ yesterday, to ogle the 100,000s of offshore officers entities around the world, led by China and the Five Eyes, Russia a distant third, Europe hardly in the running. Then see North Korea and South Korea in a near tie of stashing Dollars and Renminbi. Broader involvement of knowledgeable parties in assessing leaked material, beyond the capabilities and interests of commercial journalism, would be saluatory. At 09:45 PM 5/10/2016, you wrote: ><https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/>
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