September 2, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — "Thursday’s news that WikiLeaks' entire cache of 250,000 unredacted,
classified U.S. government documents has been unintentionally released
directly onto the Internet has elicited groans and guffaws from both
media and security analysts," begins a Christian Science Monitor report. "The ability to communicate freely
may be yet another casualty of such incidents, says Mark Tatge,
journalism professor at DePauw University's Pulliam Center for
Contemporary Media," writes Gloria Goodale. "As it
becomes harder to keep any information private, everyone from
politicians to diplomats and businesses will find it increasingly
difficult to communicate."
Tatge, who serves as Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at DePauw, tells the publication, "If nobody wants to commit anything to paper
or an 
e-mail or even a phone conversation for fear of being tapped or
exposed, then we are setting back important functions of our culture
quite significantly."
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