Jonathan Cook's response Archived Message
Posted by margo on June 2, 2019, 1:34 pm, in reply to "Jeremy Hunt's address to the World News Media Congress in Glasgow, yesterday"
@Jonathan_K_Cook "Shortly after the UK gov was found responsible for torturing journalist Assange by a UN expert, the world's leading media editors and executives welcomed Britain's foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt to address them". "Did any of the media editors at the congress protest that Hunt had just flippantly dismissed the finding of UN expert Nils Melzer that *years* of government policy towards Assange amounted to torture? Because if they did, there's no report of it." "The media elite presumably nodded approvingly as Hunt said the role of journalism was "holding the powerful to account, exposing wrongdoing, deterring corruption and strengthening democracy" - as long as they weren't, like Assange, doing any of that in the UK" "Seemingly without protest from the forum, Hunt claimed to be a defender of journalists from abuse by others: "We can't physically stop journalists from being locked up for doing their jobs, but we can alert global public opinion and make sure the diplomatic price is too high" ---- - - - @japarilla notes: "Two weeks after Hunt became Foreign Minister he said Assange faces "serious charges". At the time, Julian faced NO charges. No journalist thought to ask "what charges?". Hunt said JA can "leave embassy any time", knowing it was a lie."
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