In browsing through the online news I found an article that mirrors a novel I just read, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. The article found was about Wikileaks, a whistle-blowing organization in which journalists bring about astonishing news to the public through interrogative journalistic articles. Millennium, the organization within the novel, is also a whistle blowing company also releasing journal articles holding information generally withheld from the public. However that is not where the similarities stop.
The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, was recently arrested about alleged sex crimes. The main character in the book Mikael Blomkvist, was also arrested, but due to improper journalistic integrity. Both crimes were committed in Sweden. Similar yes; identical no. However, the novel deals with crimes against women, and the crime committed by Assange was against women.
It may be a stretch but I found that both the novel and the article were considerably interrelated. A form of business, such as whistle-blowing, rarely makes it into a novel. Also recently in Comm 101 the term was used to describe another organization. I have been overwhelmed with this style of organization and have become increasingly aware just how prevalent whistle-blowing is in society. However, I have not been convinced that all whistle-blowing has lead to the desired change, especially when those announcing the crime, have a hand in committing others.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/world/europe/02assange.html?_r=1&ref=world
A quick summary if you haven’t read the book:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_with_the_Dragon_Tattoo