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I think this is pretty well explained by Chomsky's Propaganda Model, and unfortunately not very surprising. It is not that the governments of the US and UK hav
by cochne 6y ago
I think this is pretty well explained by Chomsky's Propaganda Model, and unfortunately not very surprising. It is not that the governments of the US and UK have conspired to conceal the truth, but that the media has chosen to censor itself. It does this in favor of the government support it receives, in the form of receiving official sources and avoiding flak.
- jjeaff 6y agoI think I would probably go with Occam's Razor here. Stories about Johnny Depp's case get orders of magnitude more clicks than stories about Julian Assange.
- candiodari 6y ago... and orders of magnitude less complaints. I bet Julien Assange has tons of enemies, even loads of people who just feel he has "betrayed" US/UK army/police force/... The big lesson is that it's very much exactly on display what fairness is on offer at courts in the UK: the BBC is very big on criticizing governments worldwide the UK has beefs with, not so big on criticizing the UK government or it's main ally.