A judge has ordered the New York Times to exercise prior restraint in publishing materials that originated with Project Veritas, the right-wing hidden-camera organization. Newspapers and First Amendment groups are understandably concerned, but it’s hard to take them seriously about press freedom when they ignore, underplay or outright smear WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, who is literally dying in a British prison awaiting extradition to the United States for espionage charges related to his journalism.
Press Freedom for Us, Not for Assange
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Either free Julian Assange or shut down and imprison the New York Times as equally criminal.
Obama wouldn’t prosecute Assange, but Trump acted to do it.
The”New Way Forward” of Biden is still on the “New Way Backward” of Trump.
Glenn,
Obama wouldn’t prosecute Assange because he (Obama) would have also had to have taken several major newspapers to court as well. And like all bullies, Obama knows to only attack the weakest member of a group, and only when that person is alone.
It’s too bad the CIA can’t hold the dying Assange’s arms behind his back. I think, maybe, Obama could handle him then.
Dick Durbin Wants to Stop You From Being a Journalist
https://fair.org/home/dick-durbin-wants-to-stop-you-from-being-a-journalist/
By Dick Durbin’s standard Glenn Greenwald could not be a journalist because his contract with The Intercept precluded his work being subject editing.
That’s why he left.