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It doesn't help that Assange is kind of unsavory. It should not affect things, but it does.
by jacobush 7y ago
It doesn't help that Assange is kind of unsavory. It should not affect things, but it does.
- marcus_holmes 7y agoalso that "mainstream" journalists refuse to recognise him as a journalist and defend his rights like they would one of their own.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> also that "mainstream" journalists refuse to recognise him as a journalist and defend his rights like they would one of their own. Mainstream American journalists have been bending over backwards doing exactly that with regard to the US indictment, even when it requires rather unusual characterization of what journalism normally entails to make the case. They haven't been focussed on the extradition because they don't view the extradition as the problem, but the indictment.
- bufferoverflow 7y agoIt doesn't matter, he is still a journalist, and he has accomplished more than they will in a life time.