How do you write a story on imprisoned journalists around the world without mentioning Julian Assange or Gonzalo Lira? From Joel Bowman at joelbowman.substack.com:
Autocrats, Assange and our Altruistic Angels in the Mainstream Press
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“As a political prisoner, held at Your Majesty’s pleasure on behalf of an embarrassed foreign sovereign, I am honoured to reside within the walls of this world class institution. Truly, your kingdom knows no bounds.”
~ A Kingly Proposal: Letter from Julian Assange to King Charles III
Praise Hermes for our better angels in the Mainstream Press; without these saintly heralds, how ever would we know which lies to believe, which truths to discard… and what to ignore completely?
In a recent article for The Wall Street Journal, “Authoritarians Threaten Journalists Around the Globe,” it took the two authors (and three contributors) 2,217 words not to mention the name Julian Assange.
Apparently, of the more than 520 reporters imprisoned around the world, according to the column’s subhead, “reflecting rising pressure on independent media,” the Australian journalist, who awaits extradition from the United Kingdom to the United States, where he faces up to 175 years in prison, did not warrant comment, or even so much as a footnote.
That the Wikileaks founder spent seven years in self-imposed exile in the basement of the Ecuadorian embassy… followed by five years (and counting) incarcerated in the UK’s infamous Belmarsh Prison – without conviction – failed to stir the authors’ quivering pens to action. That even the lily-livered BBC summoned sufficient fortitude to dub His Majesty’s gaol “British Guantanamo Bay” gives you some idea as to conditions within the heavily-guarded stone walls.
Nor was Mr. Assange alone in escaping the notice of The Wall Street Journal’s topnotch noticers.
May he escape Devil’s Island by sheer will and brainpower.
On an old build disc there is an app for journalists to see if you have been compromised by the gov malware that all PC security app builders agreed to ignore.
They caught the Italian teen making bomb threats in CA by using it back in the Year Zero reign of Chairman Mau Mau Barry.
This is why there is an offline only Samizdat box in the Hall of Archives.