From: Pete Froslie <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Re: <nettime> Pilger on flow of information
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 15:48:41 +0200
To: John Young <[email protected]>
I am out of the office until Monday, July 01,
2019. I am traveling to the North Pole and will
have no access to email. If you need immediate
assistance, please call 405.325.4697.
Sincerely,
Pete
On Jun 16, 2019, at 10:56 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,Ã
This interview is an impressive account, if you
have not read oneÂand by one of our most
impressive brothersÂ- 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.Ã
John Pilger - such a commanding voice for these
times - a supporter of AssangeÂgives 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/>https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/14/john-pilger-the-global-war-on-assange-journalism-dissent/
Molly
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