Hey, New York Times and Friends!
If you aren’t working 24/7 to get Assange released you’re not journalists. You‘re tools.
On the first day of that Intro to Journalism class, the professor — an award-winning, internationally renowned investigative reporter and author of best-selling books, spoke with great solemnity about the “calling” of journalism. The man meant it. I really really wish I could ask him what he thinks of the almost inevitable extradition of Julian Assange, an Australian citizen, to the United States on charges under The Espionage Act.
I’ve tried to reach out to that highly regarded journalist from that class with no luck.
So, I guess I’ll ask all the journalists currently calling themselves journalists in this country and in the United Kingdom what they think of the crusade to destroy Julian Assange. I’m listening.
From where I sit among the curious and the few remaining critical thinkers still paying attention to this travesty, it appears that anyone who thinks of themselves as a journalist is about to see the profession dismantled. Once Julian Assange is in custody in the United States of America, no one will ever again be able to dig into the truth behind what they’re being told by The Government. To do so is to risk being ostracized from their profession or worse…
