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There are a lot of us who don't consider Assange a journalist, but some foreign actor with a website collecting and publishing secrets to injure the enemies of

There are a lot of us who don't consider Assange a journalist, but some foreign actor with a website collecting and publishing secrets to injure the enemies of Russia. To call him "the most hard-hitting journalist of the past decade" is frankly laughable. I'm not sure how you can claim the charges are fictitious unless you haven't read them. The charging document for the superseding indictment is fairly straightforward and relatively short. What problems do you have with it?

ben_w 5y ago
As it is possible to be biased and misleading while still only saying true things, I think it’s possible to be both "the most hard-hitting journalist of the past decade"[0] and “foreign actor with a website collecting and publishing secrets to injure the enemies of Russia”. Likewise, I am of the opinion that the attempted extradition and prosecution for the sex offences would not have happened if he hadn’t upset the wrong people, while also being of the opinion that he did the crimes. [0] That’s said, I wouldn’t describe him that way. Plenty of other journalists doing fine work.