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Here is video from Russia Today of a press conference that Julian Assange and Kristinn Hrafnsson, WikiLeaks spokesperson. RT claims not a lot of press organizations were there to cover the press conference.
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Part 2
Assange, while commenting on the normal array of issues he normally comments on, comments on the News of the World phone hacking scandal:
No person, no director or spokesperson or contractor of WikiLeaks has even been charged with a crime in any country and yet we have suffered this economic embargo for the past seven months. News of the World has been charged multiple times for sourcing related offenses. That said, it does appear based on the allegation that in some cases News International overstepped the boundaries of what was ethical. That does not mean that an entire newspaper should receive the death sentence. Rather, the few employees or staff or managers should be investigated, perhaps, and dealt with. But should all the journalists in News International and the entire paper go? It’s always a loss to a community when it loses one of its papers. I would ask that people think carefully and distinguish between destroying an institution and cleaning up a few bad apples.
This concern appears to stem from Assange’s belief that how this scandal is handled by those in power could have repercussions for investigative journalists.
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losing the sun and NOTW would be a win for the community. What is going on here is NI has perhaps had undue influence on politicians and has usurped democracy.
I mean who is julian working for or more to the point who is blackmailing him. He did not have to come out and say this and it makes him look very suspect, IMO
This Assange quote is incomprehensible. Does anyone NOT think, with Murdoch this is the tip of an iceberg?
Hmmm. I gotta feeling, oooh-hooo:
His last interview with Amy Goodman where he was asked about the bank cable releases, Assange responded that he was being blackmailed in regards to that.
Fast forward a few weeks until today and read how the Dow Jones CEO is resigning because he is also a top exec with News Corp and this phone scandal may effect him. Link: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Dow-Jones-CEO-Les-Hinton-allthingsd-412423468.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=main&asset=&ccode=
Then break down what Assange is saying in this interview. Does this mean that News Corp, Dow Jones, and other Political operatives are hacking phones and other communications to keep America from learning the truth about, well about EVERYTHING?
I don’t know the particulars of the NOTW cases, but the media is in a hysterically pitched lynch mob mind frame, and I suspect that Mr. Assange is responding to the ‘collective punishment’ through firing of all of the staff, part of the NOTW scandal.
IMO, Murdoch is doing this on purpose. He is shutting down the entire thing to avoid investigations and finger pointing.
This may be the tip of the iceberg BUT Murdoch isn’t going anywhere.
The FBI & DOJ are forced to get involved as well as some members of the US-Senate so as to contain the damage: some Senators as well as some in the FBI & DOJ were well aware of what Uncle Rupert was doing.
Uncle Rupert will be given a clean bill by any investigations in our USA.
Don’t forget that mucho bucks always talks.Of course you didn’t need me to say that the RULE OF LAW only applies to people like you & I,ordinary Americans.
Look, Uncle Rupert had more than half of the US Senate on his payroll,including many so called Democrats….just remember that to change the laws of media ownership Murdoch flipped many prominent Dem,who in exchange for favorable coverage on FAUXNEWS during Presidential Primary voted for anything Uncle Rupert wanted, including the vote that made it possible for Uncle Rupert to own Print media & TV media in the same market.
Now you really think that the US -political elites are going to have damaging information come to light that discredit many of the political elites in our USA ?…..think again folks.
Yes. I was just commenting on why Mr. Assange would have identified with what the whole organization is going through as Wikileaks has been financially and legally ‘shut down’ through undue USA governmental influence in the credit card, Paypal, Amazon cloud businesses which allowed them to fund and hence operate their news business.
Sorta like blackmail, eh?
Investigative Journalists? Is that a joke?
Any journalists that do anything remotely like investigation end up dead or indicted on bullshit charges in order to malign them ad hominem. Journalists are, by and large, LAPDOGS for the Corporatocracy.
Sure, there are good internet journalists, but their audience doesn’t count, yet. Archie Bunker ain’t never heard of ‘em.
Well reasoned, unfortunately.
Yeah, the CEO of Dow Jones quits? Over Murdoch?
N we KNOW they never go after each other, so that one was a sacrifice to hide n cover the shit below the shitstorm of NewsCorp fuck up’s.
Man the shit they must be hiding . . . they NEVER sacrifice one of their own, NEVER! N certainly not at the level of Wall St n Dow JOnes.
Unprecedented . . . hell, in ’29 some of the fuckers had the balls to jump out their windows, we’ll never see THAT again.
Suspect? How? Why?
I don’t see it . . . pray tell elucidate me . . .
N there’s the tip of the iceberg.
Well done B . . . very well done.