Wikileaks and Julian Assange – “Risk”

“Risk” is a documentary created by Laura Poitras that looks inside the Wikileaks case of Julian Assange. Poitras does a good job by only adding her own thoughts into the film at times, yet it is a respectful approach to the sandal. Therefore, this is a good source to get context and unbiased information due to the lack of contextualizing information which might have been beneficial for the audience. Assange was involved with the Russian government which lead to emails to the Clinton campaign which led to trial. The government could see what Asssange was doing with his Wikileaks behind the scenes. I think that all of the characters in the documentary portray journalists as political and social activists in a way. Journalism always relates back to something political most of the time and this is a case of it. After the movie, my personal opinion of Assange and the Wikileaks case is still confusing to me. I think he should be punished for what has gone one. As for the consequences in the future of journalism, people might not always see the truth behind some journalism because of this event that has occurred.