No There There

That is what is happening in the case of Julian Assange. Many American news outlets are willing to selectively use the documented evidence made available by Wikileaks. To do so is to draw on what the website has placed in the public domain. But they will not stand up and publicly defend the “whistleblower” who makes the information public. I imagine publishers, editors, and media moguls, and the vast majority of those they employ, just don’t have the courage to support the individual who breaks some unprincipled law or regulation designed to enforce silence in relation to official crimes and hypocrisy.--LD


Here is a terrific article on the abdication of the press regarding the case of Julian Assange. For the most part the press delivers a yawning silence followed by a 24-hour news cycle of yammering about the criminal Trump and his associates.

There's so much more out there, but who's going to get it?

Potatoes, no meat.


TS