John et al, No response to your whole text right now, but in the work we are doing tracking support for Assange - here is another as friends of Assange, socialists and journalists are called to join forces in defending him and investigative reporting by John Pilger:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/19/pilg-j19.html On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 1:55 PM John Young <[email protected]> wrote: > Fine for offense for estabished, seasoned > journalists beholden to commercial publishers to > promote the industry as defenders of, well, the > superstructure varies, but usually rests on the > advertising foundation, or generous benefactors > of the NGO species, not to overlook the evenly > more capaciously-backed GOV-supported enterprises, BBG, RFE, Tor, Signal, > etc. > > But, upon careful scrutiny of the > WikiLeaks/Assange saga, the voluminous outpouring > is not yet so applicable to WL/Assange despite > innumerable journalists making use of it/him for > their purposes, as done by the press for the > history of WikiLeaks, Assange doing his part to > play along with the rather over the top > comedic-melodrama customarily deployed by used vehicle salespersons. > > Hang out with journalists for an earful of their > venomous hatred of publishers and advertisers and > public relations practitioners, and, not least, > lawyers devising and running the plays of what > can be published with limited risk to owners/investors of the press. > > Assange once castigated journalists for their > cowardice but elected to tone that down after > being joined by a coterie of "seasoned" jounos > and 1A lawyers who advised to wear the costume of > press privilege, to shade releases enough to > forestall official armageddon, that is, prevent > and/or dry-up funding, to perform "responsibly," > and quietly vet with authorities. Assange's > indictments, original and superceding, appear > crafted with the 1A industry prime target. > > The very exaggerated defense of press sanctity in > the Assange case certainly betrays venal > opportunism with least risk to journalism and > maximum publicity. Pile it on, so seldom does a > group of usually vicious competitors get to > choral a glorification of a sacrificial victim: > they can only hope Assange is paraded for months > and years "on the way to the gallows." Cliche gold mine awaits. > > > > At 01:43 PM 6/16/2019, you wrote: > >Dear nettime, > > > >This interview is an impressive account, if you > >have not read one—and by one of our most > >impressive brothers—- of the at attacks and > >governmental punishment of journalists in a > >several countries, and the falling down of free > >press and flow of information in liberal > >democracies which are still pretending to be liberal democracies. > > > >John Pilger - such a commanding voice for these > >times - a supporter of Assange—gives us history and aanalysis: > > > >< > https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/14/john-pilger-the-global-war-on-assange-journalism-dissent/ > > > https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/14/john-pilger-the-global-war-on-assange-journalism-dissent/ > > > >Molly > > > > > ># distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > ># <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > ># collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > ># more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > ># archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] > ># @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: > > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: >
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