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Your politics are in everything that you write (warning: strong language)
- pdkl95 11y agoLANGUAGE WARNING Jacob Appelbaum uses very strong language in this speech. If you don't want to hear direct language and more than a few curses, then you may want to skip this video. -- This is a shorter speech by Jacob Appelbaum about the political realities of journalism. His describes his experiences with The Guardian, which some may consider a crude attack. I see it as important information about the actual priorities of the institutions we used to see as "journalists". The audience laughter is telling as it becomes more and more uncomfortable. That uncomfortable laughter becomes stunned silence when he mentions, "The Guardian, in all seriousness, sent [Julian Assange] a basket with soap and socks." Framing matters, avoiding politics is just a way of agreeing with the status quo, and collaborators need to be called out for aiding and abetting the criminals in positions of power.