National Conference on Ethical Issues and Indian Media
National Conference on Ethical Issues and Indian Media
National Conference on Ethical Issues and Indian Media
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ati<strong>on</strong>al <str<strong>on</strong>g>C<strong>on</strong>ference</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>on</strong> <strong>Ethical</strong> <strong>Issues</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Indian</strong> <strong>Media</strong> <strong>on</strong> ovember 26, 27 2010<strong>Indian</strong> <strong>Media</strong>'s Coverage of Wikileaks <strong>on</strong> Iraq: An <strong>Ethical</strong> PerspectiveK.KarnamaharajanAssociate ProfessorDept. of Journalism <strong>and</strong> Mass Communicati<strong>on</strong>Krishna UniversityMachilipatnamP.Prema airAssistant ProfessorDept. of Visual Communicati<strong>on</strong>Avinashilingam Deemed UniversityCoimbatoreAbstractWikileaks released nearly 4,00,000 secret American documents <strong>on</strong> the Iraq war, detailing the accounts of torture, killing of over66,000 civilians <strong>and</strong> the role of Iran in the c<strong>on</strong>flict. The expose in the website is c<strong>on</strong>sidered to be the “largest classified military leak”.This paper attempts to examine how Wikileaks' expose has been covered in the <strong>Indian</strong> media from an ethical perspective.Dept. of Journalism <strong>and</strong> Mass Communicati<strong>on</strong>, Periyar University, Salem
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