Another potshot by the nyt at Assange

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"The Prisoner as Talk Show Host"

"His reputation has taken a deep plunge since he shook the world in 2010 by releasing, in cooperation with The New York Times and several other news organizations, masses of secret government documents, including battlefield reports from Iraq and Afghanistan. Most news organizations edited and redacted the papers to protect lives. Mr. Assange put everything on his Web site. To some he was a hero, to others a spy, but nowadays he is most often portrayed as a nut job."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/ar...ussian-tv.html

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Re: Another potshot by the nyt at Assange

Jullian has plenty of faults, but parts of that NY article doesn't strike me as very balanced. They call him prisoner in the title, but let us not forget that he hasn't even been formally charged after being put under house arrest for some 600+ days. That strikes me as just a tad unjust no? The US is out to get Assange, and do to him at least what they did to Bradley Manning, possibly worse. I posted a 20 min intro video over on the video section of Assange and RT discussing the series. As I said, I will reserve judgement until after it comes out. At minimum, it will be interesting to get a non-western version of major events, past and present.