Attacking Wikileaks’ Assange for Doing What Journalists are Supposed to Do

[obsidian]

http://dissidentvoice.org/2016/08/attacking-wikileaks-assange-for-doing-what-journalists-are-supposed-to-do/

Attacking Wikileaks’ Assange for Doing What Journalists are Supposed to Do

by Dave Lindorff / August 19th, 2016

While I periodically have written commentaries dissecting and pillorying news articles in the New York Times to expose their bias, hypocrisy half-truths and lies, I generally ignore their editorials since these are overtly opinions of the management, and one expects them to display the elitist and neo-liberal perspective of the paper’s publisher and senior editors.

That said, the August 17 editorial about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent four harrowing years trapped in the apartment-sized Ecuadoran embassy thanks to a trumped-up and thoroughly discredited political rape “investigation” by a politically driven Swedish prosecutor and a complicit right-wing British government, moves far beyond even the routine rampant bias and distortion of a Times editorial into misrepresentation and character assassination. As such it cries out for criticism.

Headlined “A Break in the Assange Saga,” the editorial starts off with the flat-out lie that “Ecuador and Sweden finally agreed last week that Swedish prosecutors could question Julian Assange at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London where he has been holed up since 2012.”

[andreisdaman]

http://dissidentvoice.org/2016/08/attacking-wikileaks-assange-for-doing-what-journalists-are-supposed-to-do/

Attacking Wikileaks’ Assange for Doing What Journalists are Supposed to Do

by Dave Lindorff / August 19th, 2016

While I periodically have written commentaries dissecting and pillorying news articles in the New York Times to expose their bias, hypocrisy half-truths and lies, I generally ignore their editorials since these are overtly opinions of the management, and one expects them to display the elitist and neo-liberal perspective of the paper’s publisher and senior editors.

That said, the August 17 editorial about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent four harrowing years trapped in the apartment-sized Ecuadoran embassy thanks to a trumped-up and thoroughly discredited political rape “investigation” by a politically driven Swedish prosecutor and a complicit right-wing British government, moves far beyond even the routine rampant bias and distortion of a Times editorial into misrepresentation and character assassination. As such it cries out for criticism.

Headlined “A Break in the Assange Saga,” the editorial starts off with the flat-out lie that “Ecuador and Sweden finally agreed last week that Swedish prosecutors could question Julian Assange at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London where he has been holed up since 2012.”

I don't think journalists are taught in law Journalism school to steal materials from people's emails and computer hard drives

[iwantmass]

I don't think journalists are taught in law Journalism school to steal materials from people's emails and computer hard drives

Doesn't wiki leaks maintain that they don't actually engage in these illegal activities. They merely post the material that is obtained from their sources

[andreisdaman]

Doesn't wiki leaks maintain that they don't actually engage in these illegal activities. They merely post the material that is obtained from their sources

you have a point....I think I was thinking of Anonymous....but I'm gonna guess that some Wiki adherents do hack on behalf of Wiki

[Lartinos]

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/10/ecuador-presidential-candidate-fernando-villavicencio-killed