2 years ago in Junior College, I remember very vividly reading upon a nice term that was utilized in a comprehension passage back in General Paper class.

"Investigative Journalism". The comprehension in general talked about the powers of investigative journalism, and also touched on the Watergate Scandal to illustrate its power. It reminded us of the fact that such investigative journalism is dying out, as newspapers turning to tabloids to improve their profits rather than these such topics that may not even bring back interesting information for print.

I recall also talking about the topic with Mrs Ong closing to the end of the consultation I had with her over the paper. We agreed that such journalism is going, but someone will definitely take it too far soon enough.

And out comes wikileaks.

In today's world, where everything can be tracked, bugged and recorded, it would not be an exaggeration to that whatever you say could come back to bite you a few years in the future, including this blog that I type today.

Firstly, why is the website getting so much publicity because of the information? We have to realize that investigative journalism has been around since the 1900s. It is not something new that people have poked around and investigated whatever information they can get their hands on, and showing such information to the world. The only reason that the information that wikileaks is giving out today has attracted so much furore is simply because no one has been doing it recently, and no one has had the guts to do it YET.

Mark my words, the only reason Julian Assange hasn't had a bullet put through his skull is because of the amount of publicity that he has been getting over these leaks across the internet.

Realize that what the website is doing is nothing difficult. When you have the sources, from people in the service that decided to leak these information, or if you could tap a cable of any embassy, you could easily obtain these information, and with the internet, distribution of these information is nothing much in itself. You simply upload it online and leave everyone else to do the rest. This in no way respectably harder than investigative journalism in the past, it is simply just exposing information that has been collected or contributed by others.

Secondly, how ironic is the website itself. They have claimed to expose all of such information, and show the public another side of the governments of the world, and they also have new cutting edge cryptography securing the information on their servers. Hmm.

But, in the less, I couldn't care less about the website, I couldn't care less about what would happen to Mr Assange in the future. The question is, what has the release of such information done to the world? Or rather, what will it do to the world? One wonders if such a thought has even gone through the mind of Mr Assange, did he even give a moment of thought to the consequences of such actions? In this world, it is run around lies and secrecy. That is an unspoken acknowledgment intrinsically known by everyone who is the citizen of the world. People Lie. As simple as that, but as long as such lies do not compromise the systems of which the world are built on, everybody can just move on and meddle in their own work letting it pass.

When you drag out these secrecy, you destabilize the system. Everyone can no longer ignore the ugly truth, when such information are further publicized by the media around. Economic markets go down, diplomatic relations sour, the world is thrown into turmoil.

To me, the website is simply just a teenager. Everyone of its actions are driven at simply increasing its own popularity. So long as we continue to be famous, and be noticed, it would be ok. Really, are they still bringing these information for the sake of informing the world about the 'truth'? Because if they are, they obviously are just simply idiots.

Is the pursuit of truth really so important that we have to bring the world down with it?

If you think about, perhaps the pursuit of truth should end when you realize that actually, there is no truth. Just the most convenient lie.