Absolute And Arbitrary Power’: Killing Extinction Rebellion And Julian Assange

 

 

You just have to read this article:

https://www.medialens.org/2020/absolute-and-arbitrary-power-killing-extinction-rebellion-and-julian-assange/

Media Lens has done it once again--published a must-read article which looks at the complicity of mainstream media in reducing journalism to little more than exercises in corporate propaganda. Looks at it from all angles.

It is an engrossing read and ends with a quote from John Pilger:

‘It is said that whatever happens to Julian Assange in the next three weeks will diminish if not destroy freedom of the press in the West. But which press? The Guardian? The BBC, The New York Times, the Jeff Bezos Washington Post?

‘No, the journalists in these organizations can breathe freely. The Judases on the Guardian who flirted with Julian, exploited his landmark work, made their pile then betrayed him, have nothing to fear. They are safe because they are needed.

‘Freedom of the press now rests with the honorable few: the exceptions, the dissidents on the internet who belong to no club, who are neither rich nor laden with Pulitzers, but produce fine, disobedient, moral journalism — those like Julian Assange.’

Pilger's point is of course, one of the main points of my own recent article on Assange: that the persecution and  martyrdom of Assange tells us that journalism as we used to think of is no more. We are left with only the dissidents and contrarians on the Internet. Journalism is dead. Long live Journalism.

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