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Perhaps I’m cynical, but the outrage from the media over the arrest of Assange smacks of duplicity for me. After all, it was Asaange who helped leak documents
by Simulacra 8y ago
Perhaps I’m cynical, but the outrage from the media over the arrest of Assange smacks of duplicity for me. After all, it was Asaange who helped leak documents which then the media could write about. He was almost doing their job for them. Distant echoes of when Gizmodo found an iPhone 4, and some tech journalist ( Who would have loved the scoop) scolded them.
- 13415 8y agoI don't understand where the duplicity would be in that. "The media" (your term) used documents from Wikileaks in their reporting and now are outraged about the arrest of Assange? There is nothing incongruent about that. Did I misunderstand you?
- kikoreis 8y agoI was going to post the same thing but I fumbled in finding the right word, incongruent of course. In general the media will protest when they perceive a threat to freedom of press which is both self interested and highly useful.
- mc32 8y agoSome in the press are alleging he’s an “activist”, not a real journalist[1], which seems self serving. The reason, they hope to “define” what s true journalist is, so that they can remain gatekeepers of who journalists are and what is news. Baffling. [1]https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/11/opinions/julian-assange-activist-not-journalist-ghitis/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/11/opinions/julian-assange-activ...