Guardian trying to make up for lost time, now they realise their complicity in hounding Assange?Archived Message
Posted by margo on August 23, 2019, 9:26 am
Interesting development today. Guardian's clearly stung by eye-witness account and are fighting back, to protection reputation and brand.
Veteran Australian journalist Mark Davis - who gave his eye-witness account of how Assange was sabotaged and set up as fall guy in The Guardian's bunker room by Alan Rusbridger, David Leigh, Nick Davies et al - has now apparently issued a 'joint statement' with Guardian's Nick Davies.
Seems Nick Davies (& Co) might be desperate to get on the right side of history - now that The Guardian's decade-long machinations against Assange and Wikileaks is exposed for all to see.
Has the Assange narrative now finally changed ... at The Guardian??
Should people forgive and forget the years of incredibly damaging lies, smears and poisonous opinion?
The "Manafort met Assange" article by Luke Harding is still online: editor Viner has never apologised and retracted it.
Sample of many Guardian-linked journalists anti-Assange actions:
- WL employee James Ball allegedly stole Wikileaks material, left WL and then went to join The Guardian as a journalist
- David Leigh printed secret password Assange had entrusted him with in the hit-piece book that he and Luke Harding published and profited from
- David Leigh accused Julian of "getting into bed with dictators [which] shows how shallow and reckless he can be as an amateur journalist" [WL has a verified 100% accuracy record [NewsGuard verify] which is more than can be said of The Guardian]
- Nick Cohen published a hit piece ("The Treachery of Julian Assange"), saying Assange 'was an active danger to the real seekers of truth'.
- Rusbridger published a hit-piece from Karin Ollsen in Sweden ("From Hero to Zero"), pushing the "anti-semitic" slur James Ball had started... and calling Assange a "pitiable, paranoid figure" and "a dodgy hacker from Australia".
... and so on
As Italian journalist (La Reppublica) Stephania Maurizia described at a talk given in Bergen, Norway, last night (live-streamed by Courage Foundation) - this UK media-led demonisation and character assassination has been a crucial part of denying support to a whistle-blower, hounded in plain sight