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Ben Sullivan | Reporting News vs Making News | Oxford Union

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Channel: OxfordUnion · 2013 · News & Politics

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Ben 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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