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Title: Who's Worse—Julian Assange or the New York Times and Washington Post?
Post by: rangerrebew on April 14, 2019, 11:58:46 am
Who's Worse—Julian Assange or the New York Times and Washington Post?
By Roger L. Simon 2019-04-11T22:00:12


The arrest of Julian Assange by British authorities was met with nearly unanimous hosannas by U.S. politicians who gave their requisite soundbites cum gravitas on Capitol Hill Thursday. The self-styled journalist, they almost all said, should be extradited to the U.S. as quickly as possible to face the proverbial music for having exposed state secrets of our country — or at least the Democratic Party.  Well, not exactly that — more accurately for having conspired with former U.S. intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to download classified databases, a legal distinction.

Ironically, not a peep has been heard from the same people (or almost anybody for that matter) thus far about another recent egregious misuse of journalism that resulted not in arrests but in the awarding of its most famous prize, the Pulitzer. As Beth Baumann noted for Townhall:

https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/whos-worse-julian-assange-or-the-ny-times-and-washington-post/