Luther And Radovic's Journal Article Analysis

Luther and Radovic’s work “Newspapers Frame Julian Assange Differently” focused on how Julian Assange is identified and whether he is portrayed as a journalist or not according to two U.S. Newspapers and two French Newspapers. The journal article goes into analysis of each newspaper and whether they have commended Assange to be a journalist or not. This source is helpful to the essay topic as it shows different opinions of the two nations, their newspaper’s endorsements and their governments private security. The strengths of this source is that there are many sources based purely off the Assange case. Also, this journal article does not involve their own opinion but gives an in-depth analysis of each newspaper and their stances on the WikiLeaks website and Assange. The weakness of this journal is that due to the …show more content…
Although the source is based around the leaked Palestine Papers, it also focus’ on the WikiLeaks and how they influenced the leak of the Palestine Papers. The scholarly source is relevant and helpful to the assessment question as it analysis’ how influential Assange and his project was, resulting into a bigger effect other than just the effect of the leaks on the Government. The strength of this source is that it approves of the anti-censorship movement in “journalism”, the changing dynamic of the press-political relationship. These are considered as strengths of Zayani’s work as it favours a certain perspective compared to other sources which enables varied opinion. The weakness of the journal is that there is a bias opinion based pro “hacktivism” although, there is no professional bias opinion. Therefore, this is the weakness of the source as it lacks specific professional opinion, affecting the strong bias un-professional opinion of the