| In 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide's The News, wrote: "In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win." |
1958年，時任《阿德萊德日報》老板兼編輯、年輕的魯伯特·默多克寫道：“在秘密和真相的賽跑中，真相總是會不可阻擋地獲得勝利。” |
| His observation perhaps reflected his father Keith Murdoch's expose that Australian troops were being needlessly sacrificed by incompetent British commanders on the shores of Gallipoli. The British tried to shut him up but Keith Murdoch would not be silenced and his efforts led to the termination of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign. |
他的這番言論或許是影射他的父親基思·默多克揭露戰爭真相的事件。基思·默多克曾爆料：由于英國統帥的無能，無數澳大利亞軍人在加里波第戰役中作出不必要的犧牲。英國試圖使基思·默多克禁言，但默多克并未就此沉默。最終，他的努力促成了加里波第這場慘絕人寰的戰役的終結。 |
| Nearly a century later, WikiLeaks is also fearlessly publishing facts that need to be made public. |
在將近一個世紀之后，維基解密也在無所畏懼地公布那些理應得到公開的事實。 |
| I grew up in a Queensland country town where people spoke their minds bluntly. They distrusted big government as something that could be corrupted if not watched carefully. The dark days of corruption in the Queensland government before the Fitzgerald inquiry are testimony to what happens when the politicians gag the media from reporting the truth. |
我成長于昆士蘭州的一個鄉下小鎮，那里的人們直言不諱。他們不信任“大政府”，因為他們認為如果監管不得當，大政府很容易出現腐敗。在菲茨杰拉爾德調查（譯者注：澳大利亞80年代的一起警方腐敗案）之前，昆士蘭州曾經歷一段腐敗盛行的黑暗時期，那正是政治控制媒體并壓制真相的惡果。 |
| These things have stayed with me. WikiLeaks was created around these core values. The idea, conceived in Australia, was to use internet technologies in new ways to report the truth. |
我將這些歷史謹記于心。維基解密是圍繞這些核心價值觀建立起來的。在我仍居住于澳大利亞的時候，我產生了利用互聯網技術報道真相的想法。 |
| WikiLeaks coined a new type of journalism: scientific journalism. We work with other media outlets to bring people the news, but also to prove it is true. Scientific journalism allows you to read a news story, then to click online to see the original document it is based on. That way you can judge for yourself: Is the story true? Did the journalist report it accurately? |
維基解密創立了一種全新的新聞理念：科學的新聞理念。我們與其他媒體合作，既向大眾傳播了新聞，同時也幫助證實新聞的真實性。這種科學的新聞理念允許讀者閱讀一篇新聞，然后點擊鼠標，在網上找到產生新聞的原始文件。這樣，讀者就能夠自行判斷：這篇新聞是否真實？記者的報道是否準確？ |
![Elizabeth Cook's artist impression of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's appearance at Westminster Magistrates Court in London, where he was denied bail after appearing on an extradition warrant. [AP]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20101208/00114320def10e692f4403.jpg "Elizabeth Cook's artist impression of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's appearance at Westminster Magistrates Court in London, where he was denied bail after appearing on an extradition warrant. [AP]")
