Re: Is Assange, not a journalist? Archived Message
Posted by dovetailjoint on July 10, 2019, 3:36 pm, in reply to "Re: Is Assange, not a journalist?"
I think this conference is actually rather frightening. It's part of a wider strategy to regain state/corporate control of the 'narrative', or what people are allowed to see, hear and know. Assange functions as a 'heretic', the symbolism of his name not being mentioned because of what he represents; a direct challege to the cosy relationship between the western media priests, bishops and cardinals, and the aristocracy who rule over everyone else... is staggering. Assange represents a different kind of 'Truth' and the powerful don't like it at all. At a time when our media church is losing the ears and eyes of the great mass of peasants, the aristocrats and the media church are attempting to mount a kind of media counter-reformation and re-establish their primacy and control over what is true and what isn't. There fear of even mentioning the 'heretics' name shows how nervous they are and how weak, despite the vast resources they are ready to spend to crush the ideas behind Wikileaks. George Orwell would recognise all this and turn in his grave looking at this conference.
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Message Thread:
- Is Assange, not a journalist? - dovetailjoint July 10, 2019, 9:47 am
- Re: Is Assange, not a journalist? - Poster123 July 10, 2019, 10:50 am
- Vichy journalists down at Hunt's "Defend Media Freedom" conference think not - margo July 10, 2019, 1:20 pm
- Re: Is Assange, not a journalist? - margo July 10, 2019, 2:39 pm
- Re: Is Assange, not a journalist? - Raskolnikov July 10, 2019, 2:57 pm
- Re: Is Assange, not a journalist? - dovetailjoint July 10, 2019, 3:36 pm
- Amal Clooney just delivered her speech - unable to link to video (nm) - margo July 10, 2019, 3:49 pm
- Hunt: 'Countries that restrict media freedom must pay a price' - margo July 10, 2019, 5:40 pm
- Amal Clooney faults 'collective shrug' over journalist - margo July 10, 2019, 5:51 pm
- Love it! Thanks. nm - Ken Waldron July 10, 2019, 7:26 pm
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