By Okke Ornstein in Media 3 Comments Tags: al giordano, authentic journalism, narco news, narcosphere, the field
One can always count on Giordano to deliver those who lost their livelihoods or their lives, or family members, another kick in the balls. Smearing a filmmaker who lost his life, chastising a man who lost his wife for not being emotional enough when he gives a speech – there’s really no depth to which he won’t sink.
By Okke Ornstein in Media No Comments Tags: ardour, documentary, h2, podcast, production, professional, protools, radio, two things, zoom
Some people asked me what I used to produce the radio documentary that NTR aired a while ago. So here goes!
By Okke Ornstein in Media, Work No Comments Tags: colombia, darien, drugs, farc, journalism, narco, ornstein, Panama, radio, senafront
De cocainesmokkel van Colombia naar Panama wordt, zeggen de autoriteiten, gecontroleerd door de FARC guerrilla groep, en leidt tot grote onveiligheid in het grensgebied en snelle groei van gewelddadige straatbendes in de hoofdstad Panama City. Journalist Okke Ornstein woont al tien jaar in Panama en maakte een documentaire over de oorlog tegen de drugs die in het land wordt gevoerd.
By Okke Ornstein in Media 1 Comment Tags: cele, defamation, jurisdiction, libel tourism, Panama, patrick visser, press freedom, silva tree
While Panama engages in a dialog about free speech, the real debate is about jurisdiction in defamation lawsuits that arise out of speech that takes place through the Internet – a subject largely ignored in the canal nation.
By Okke Ornstein in Media, Panama 2 Comments Tags: 2004, cablegate, drugs, elections, kidnap, mata zuñiga, narco, noriega, ornstein, torrijos, watson, wikileaks
A WikiLeaks cable brings back the story of presidential narco-candidate Torrijos that yours truly leaked first.
By Okke Ornstein in Media 1 Comment Tags: berguido, journalism, la prensa, media, Panama, stephenson, wikileaks
Now that leaked diplomatic cables from the US embassy in Panama are slowly trickling down again, I can’t help noticing that the cables that have so far been published contain more than the occasional stab at Panama’s media, especially the newspapers.
By Okke Ornstein in Media 23 Comments Tags: DOJ, facebook, subpoena, tracy mccormick, twitter, wikileaks
The fine people of WikiLeaks alerted me on Twitter that the subpoena you sent to Twitter, Inc. demanding all kinds of records, in fact, includes me too.
By Okke Ornstein in Media 5 Comments Tags: bribery, cablegate, cables, corruption, embassy, journalists, JP Crowley, julian assange, Panama, state department, wikileaks
Crowley tweets that Assange puts journalists in danger, but in Panama it’s the State Department that puts us in harms way with sleazy bribery schemes.
By Okke Ornstein in Media 4 Comments Tags: cablegate, dodging, kafka, orwell, press freedom, questions, state department, unesco, wikileaks, world press freedom day 2011
A press freedom club that deletes comments from its Facebook page and then cackles that they are “glad” to see social media being used for debate while evading questions? Kafka couldn’t make this shit up.
By Okke Ornstein in Media 6 Comments Tags: assange, cablegate, dns, hosting, insurgency, mirrors, open source, wikileaks
Nobody has really picked up on this yet, but Assange said that there is a schedule for Wikileaks. And where there is a schedule there is a plan. And looking at where things are going, the plan is for radical change, and it relies on an open source model. The trouble with the website wasn’t accidental, but anticipated, and part of the strategy.
By Okke Ornstein in Media 2 Comments Tags: al giordano, conspiracy, julian assange, media, narco news, open source war, strategy, swarming, tactic, wikileaks
On day 4 of Cablegate, is the WikiLeaks strategy working? One of the defining features of Open Source Insurgency is, just as with the software movement, that it is constantly innovating, tinkering, tweaking itself. And then release early and often. Here’s my thinking about this.
By Okke Ornstein in Media 3 Comments Tags: afghanistan, Global Investigative Journalism Network, iraq, julian assange, ornstein, petition, wikileaks
Today a petition was published in support of Wikileaks. A 142 journalists signed it. I’m one of them, and here’s why.