Assange Extradition and the War on Journalism with Hedges, Ellsberg, Goodale, Udry
"No journalist or publisher who exposes war crimes or corruption will be safe."
"No journalist or publisher who exposes war crimes or corruption will be safe."
THE MOST MENACING ATTRIBUTE of what Smith calls “Resistance Journalism” is that it permits and tolerates no dissent and questioning: perhaps the single most destructive path journalism can take.
"Because CPJ excluded Assange, the organization provoked outrage and distracted from the injustice these other journalists endure."
We’re still seeing the Espionage Act used to kill free speech on a regular basis today, just over a century since its passage into law.
The indictment seeks to criminalize what journalists are not only permitted but ethically required to do: take steps to help their sources maintain their anonymity.
"Everyone," she said. "Propaganda always wins, if you allow it."
“I gave them a good boy, and then sent me back a murderer.”
We are sodden with fake news, hyped-up and incomplete information and false assertions delivered non-stop daily..."
Nobody actually thinks that Julian Assange is a Russian agent, or a rapist, or a “hostile non-state intelligence service”, or any of the other absurd smears I’ve seen circulating about him throughout all political sectors of the US-centralized empire.
It is up to us, the consumers, to stop drinking from the poisoned chalice of corporate news and seek truth somewhere else.
It is up to us, the consumers, to stop drinking from the poisoned chalice of corporate news and seek truth somewhere else.
There is a long list of the censored. The acceptable range of opinion is so narrow it is almost nonexistent.