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Ben Sullivan | Reporting News vs Making News | Oxford Union
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12:39Now PlayingBen Sullivan gives his argument for making the news rather than reporting it.
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Ben Sullivan mentions that Journalism is a dying industry and why Wikileaks, as a reporting body, sets itself aside from conventional journalism.
Filmed on Thursday 6th June 2013
MOTION: "The house would rather make news than report it."
In light of increasing antagonism between those who make the news and those who report it, is journalism a worthy profession? Has the Leveson enquiry changed matters?
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