Re: Jeremy Hunt's address to the World News Media Congress in Glasgow, yesterday Archived Message
Posted by margo on June 3, 2019, 7:26 am, in reply to "Re: Jeremy Hunt's address to the World News Media Congress in Glasgow, yesterday"
Previous Message "In recent days I've been numbed by an email interchange with a writer and editor of a professional journal who when I asked if this body supported Julian Assange he replied that the issues concerning Assange were "complicated" [ie, he wouldn't commit himself or offer an opinion] and that he didn't know enough about the case against Assange to make an judgement. I was, to put it simply. gobsmacked. Here's a person who earns his living as a professional writer who admits he hasn't kept up with the Assange case sufficiently to form an opinion.." Mind-boggling when it becomes clear a writer/journalist is not up to speed and also couldn't seem to care less. I had a similar experience with someone who protested the whole case was too complicated, they didn't know enough but wasn't it clear the guy was an arsehole? etc... I sent her this article, a one-stop shop that covers it all: Jonathan Cook summarises Assange case: LINK https://original.antiwar.com/cook/2019/05/29/ndless-procedural-abuses-show-julian-assange-case-was-never-about-law/?fbclid=IwAR0hoiCGCG2VjFeK_XMr4Z0iFWDZar1YRNzzpJwUNW5RoWI9a9687bv7a0w It opens with this para: "IT IS astonishing how often one still hears well-informed, otherwise reasonable people say about Julian Assange: “But he ran away from Swedish rape charges by hiding in Ecuador’s embassy in London. That short sentence includes at least three factual errors" ..../continues The correspondent later emailed to say Cook's article was 'helpful'
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