Panama Papers: Have the media censored the story? - The Listening Post (Full)
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- Опубликовано: 8 апр 2016
- In this special edition of The Listening Post, we look at the Panama Papers, the world's largest ever data leak that has been exposing how the rich and powerful use tax havens to hide their wealth.
The papers - 11.5 million documents in all - have revealed how Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based law firm, allegedly helped current and former world leaders, as well as businessmen, criminals, celebrities and sports stars evade or avoid tax via anonymously-owned shell companies and offshore accounts.
In terms of the size of the leak and the scale of the journalistic collaboration, the story has garnered wall-to-wall coverage and dominated the front pages of newspapers across the world.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalism, a non-profit group in the US, coordinated the reporting with 376 journalists from 109 news organisations and 76 countries poring over the files.
Such multi-newsroom collaborations are growing more common in an age of big data leaks, partly because newsrooms are shrinking while the influential players they are trying to hold accountable are growing in size, power and complexity.
But despite the somewhat success of the collaboration, the select group of media organisations that had access to the data have been criticised for how they tackled the story.
One of the mains criticisms has been the way they went after wealthy business figures and some political leaders while largely shying away from the corporate side of the story that has enabled trillions of dollars, euros, pounds and rubles to be hidden offshore.
This has in turn raised a larger question: can the corporate-owned news media really be expected to hold the corporate world to account?
Talking us through the Panama Papers and how the story came together are: Gerard Ryle, director of the ICIJ; Wolfgang Krach, editor-in-chief at Süddeutsche Zeitung; Jacqueline Kubania, a reporter at the Daily Nation, Kenya; and investigative journalist, Steven Topple.
Covering megaleaks: An exclusive interview with Julian Assange
One person who knows more than others about leaks, journalism and whistleblowing on a grand scale is WikiLeaks co-founder and editor-in-chief, Julian Assange.
In an exclusive interview, The Listening Post sat down with Assange to get his view on the Panama Papers, document leaks, multi-newsroom cooperation and the ethics of holding back information that could be in the public interest.
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All I heard is about Putins friends and no emphasis on anything else
+Nick Korneev of course ;)
+Nick Korneev ...so?
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leonor duarte Interesting
+Nick Korneev yes you are right...why the emphasis only on putin...there are other big names in these panama papers...biasness in the media is scary
Excellent. Thank you AJ for this...
Gotta wonder if there is any blackmail and this is the reason no names have really been mentioned other than the usual villians
It is a severely sanitised list.
Am dealing obliquely with one of those Panama files right now, and I can assure the world: they stole every last asset in any of those companies. It is lamentable.
Are you not the media who censored it. I don't know how does this differ from other news agency!
Talk about who fund the ICIJ and who decide to disclose whom or else you will miss the most powerful
+you are free to dig and expose........but do it with data.
So we, the public, pedestrians, are investigated or banned at every step to examine about money laundering and taxes and these rich people have huge and respected doors to go trough with their money from unknown origin.
Super rich. Normaly rich are just as abused and even more.
as to blaming the source of the light for your dark deeds........... that is as old as human evil.
I found out in the way Julian has said to some degree (German) but a great deal
for me personally was my own personal thoughts remote viewing soveriegnty
I have had collaboration with these brave men men I haven't even mentioned women who are being
Misrepresented
What about Unaoil ? ... ?
President Rousseff, not prime minister.
were is the 1%..... they cut that out didnt they :D
Where is Assange
Sorry I suffer from dyslexia
Boring but important.
Why aljazeera didn't and will not mention the former emir of Qatar who's name is in the leaked Panama papers?
you're bunch of hypocrites..
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How valid is Assange's opinion? Being couped up for years- how unworldly☀️