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In the Bush years he was cool. In the Obama years he wasn't cool. Around 2016 he became a pariah. The press is most often aligned with the interests of the part
by grumblenum 5y ago
In the Bush years he was cool. In the Obama years he wasn't cool. Around 2016 he became a pariah. The press is most often aligned with the interests of the party and is a fair-weather-friend at best.
- tootie 5y agoNot that I'm going to dig through 10 years of reddit comments, but I always hated Assange. It was abundantly clear from the outset that he was only ever self-interested. All he ever did was collect dumps of data from wherever he could, hang his sources out to dry, then try to sell them to the public with the most manufactured drama possible. Slight rant: People just get enamored with the story of the dark horse "journalist" fighting against the odds to expose corruption. In reality, the NY Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, Pro Publica have all exposed vastly more salient information and done it all ethically and faced down all legal challenges in US courts and won.