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Tacky Yaha's avatar

Reading your piece I get the feeling you consider journalists a special class of people, rather than someone fulfilling a journalistic endeavour. Calling someone by their profession is an abstraction, what if 'Bill the painter' was now a plumber, would his human rights change?

And boy does Julian outshine most of the spam peddling members of the press. Its insane you would sentence him to over a decades worth of torture for coming off as smug and anti American.

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Andrew M's avatar

Maybe if mainstream Journalists remembered the following. The Fourth Estate: The notion that the Press is the fourth estate rests on the idea that the media’s function is to act as a guardian of the public interest and as a watchdog on the activities of government.

At the moment we all feel the words "public interest" and government are reversed, or at a minimum public interest is more elite focused and not so much public.

Assange a Journalist; maybe not, but doing work that needs to be done certainly Yes.

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