Guardian record on Assange Archived Message
Posted by margo on June 3, 2019, 10:48 am, in reply to "Jokes aside, UK media grooms public to dismiss Assange as a journalist"
From @Jaraparilla Cohen in 2011 said Assange was "aching to betray better and braver people than he could ever be", specifically members of the US "military-industrial complex" (Cohen's quote marks) . He quoted Assange saying US informants "deserved to die", a quote Assange and others present deny he made. "Cohen in 2011 also repeated James Ball's claims that Assange was an anti-Semite who gave cables to Belarusian dictatorship who then killed named sources. Of course there has never been any proof of that. But who needs facts to write shit in the Guardian, right @KathViner? "[James] Ball later admitted that it was he himself who gave those cables to Israel Shamir who denied giving them to Lukashenko. But somehow Cohen makes the giant logical leap that "Assange's involvement with Shamir" absolves Guardian editor David Leigh's publishing [Assange's] archive password! "The Guardian's mantra ever since: Assange is not a journalist and Wikileaks just "dumps" stuff. Cohen blamed Assange for forcing a reporter to flee Ethiopia, as if foreign governments might never have noticed the password in David Leigh's book. It was the Guardian who really endangered [that reporter] "Cohen declared "there needs to be relentless pressure" on high profile Wikileaks reporters like Jemima Kahn and Bianca Jagger, both of whom succumbed to the bullying and disinfo campaign. In 2012 Chen wrote another article: "Definition Of Paranoia: supporters of Julian Assange". Nick Cohen attacked "the conspiratorial fantasies of the backers of the Julian Assange show", specifically Greenwald who had said the USA would try to extradite Assange. Cohen ridiculed the idea. Now the "conspiratorial fantasies" are proven real, where's the apology? "Cohen also ridiculed Assange supporters for suggesting the Swedish allegations might not be all they seem. Now we know the Crown Prosecutors told Sweden not to come question him in London, insisted this was "not a normal case" and then deleted emails! Where's the apology, Nick? "Cohen repeatedly dismissed "the infantile leftism of Assange and his creepy collaborators" but now accuses Julian of helping elect the right wing monster Trump. Again, there's no coherent logic. Just repeated smears which UK media editors for some reason decide to remunerate". "That was just the start of an 8-year UK media campaign of hate across multiple outlets, social media and insider gossip. [My] complaints to the UK Press Complaints Commission were met with ridicule, distortion and disinterest > https://jaraparilla.blogspot.com/2012/06/letter-to-uk-press-complaints.html "And after all that, following UN Nils Melzer criticism, they want to pretend this propaganda never happened, or that it was "just a joke"? No. Julian is in jail, traumatised, facing 170 years in a US supermax. We owe it to him to learn from what has happened."
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