The Cablegate Shock - Does WikiL

Research Paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, University of Leipzig (Institut für Anglistik / Institute of British Studies), course: The Anglo-American World in a Global Context; A Special Relationship?, language: English, comment: My instructor was patient with me and provided me with all the support feasible for coming up with this piece - many thanks to Frau Hofmeister, I am also indebted to my friend Stefanie who motivated me to carry on through sleepless nights of editing. As we live in a world changing rapidly, it seemed only just to let personal interest fertilize this research paper - as much as it was enjoyable writing it, I hope it provides some of the insight people seek, when dealing with WikiLeaks and the Special Relationship. A final thanks to Giordano Bruno for instilling me with humanist values. , abstract: When dealing with international relations between the United States and the United Kingdom, the Special Relationship frequently comes in handy as a paradigm, within which observable phenomena click into place. But what is the Special Relationship? Can we even say, it exists? This will be one question to deal with in this work. The other major question is: How does the Special Relationship behave in the media - how is it treated and by whom? And finally: Can the way the media deal with the Special Relationship be changed by a simple idea, that changes the preconditions for access to knowledge and the way journalists use their sources for their work? First, I will give a brief summary of what WikiLeaks is, how it came into being, and what the core ideas and values are, that it stands for. Within the scope of that, I want to give a quick glance towards the Propaganda Model, which extensively analyzes the way the modern (western) corporate media system works. Second, I want to discuss different approaches towards the Special Relationship and find out, in which