| Interesting feature on Newsnight yesterday about Bradley Manning, the person who is accused of giving away secret American data to Wikileaks. It sounded like a variation of Ibsen's Enemy of the People. Whether he is guilty-and-damned or guilty-but-morally-innocent is hard to judge. It's a dramatic story with a palimpsest theme (the argument of each side mirrors that of the other, so that everyone is claiming moral authority and everyone is accusing "the others" of being corrupt). Also it is not clear that the revelations (which were vast in scale) have actually harmed American interests - there is a strong argument that they make American diplomats look reasonably competent. Presumably Ken Loach will want to make a film of this. |
More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/9434978.stm
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