Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work

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By David Edwards

Source: MedialensThursday, June 28, 2012

http://www.zcommunications.org/incinerating-assange-the-liberal-media-go-to-work-by-david-edwards

.......The media response to Assange’s asylum request tells us much about the default brutality and reflexive herdthink of elite corporate journalism. We witnessed a rush to be seen to revile Assange as a ‘turd’, ‘weirdo’, ‘narcissist’ and joke. The crucial importance of his achievements, of his cause, was deemed utterly irrelevant beside his allegedly unbearable personal failings.

Almost as disturbing as the tsunami of mindless vitriol is the lack of dissent. US analyst Glenn Greenwald has so far been the sole high-profile political commentator willing to take on the UK’s hard-right ‘liberals’. By contrast, the Guardian and Independent’s dissident figleaves, and the many aspirational leftists who long to join them, have kept their heads down, saying nothing in support of a man who has risked his freedom and life to expose vast crimes of state.

[xchrom]

1. Du rec. Nt

[bemildred]

2. Hey, jobs are at stake, reporters jobs.

The boss wants to dump on somebody, you dump on them.

[EFerrari]

3. Julian is the new Hugo.

It's been pretty creepy, scanning the coverage. I don't remember if Ellsberg was treated this way. I seem to remember that the Black Panthers were, even when they were being killed.

[bemildred]

4. The only thing unusual is an adult white male is getting the full treatment.

Which is usually reserved for the underclasses.

[snot]

7. +1!

[OnyxCollie]

5. K&R. nt

[snot]

6. K&R'd.