{"id":26575,"date":"2017-10-08T08:12:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T13:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26575"},"modified":"2017-10-08T08:12:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T13:12:05","slug":"julian-assange-outlines-the-3-simple-steps-to-being-a-journalist-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26575","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange Outlines The 3 Simple Steps To &#8220;Being A Journalist In 2017&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-10-07\/julian-assange-outlines-3-simple-steps-being-journalist-2017\">Julian Assange Outlines The 3 Simple Steps To &#8220;Being A Journalist In 2017&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n<section class=\"node node-type-story node-full node-nid-604869\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p><strong>Haven\u2019t you heard? The Russians did it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/10\/03\/20171007_assange.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/10\/03\/20171007_assange.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seemingly behind every major news event in the last number of years, Russia has been busy influencing world events simply by reporting on them, just like everyone else. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/405975-assange-western-journalist-russia\/\"><em>as RT notes<\/em><\/a>, this,<strong> according to Assange, is key, as outlined in his three-point strategy on Friday<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>First, \u201cPick a globally newsworthy event\u201d<\/strong> which the Russian press \u201cwill also be reporting it by definition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second, \u201cWrite story: Russian state secretly behind globally newsworthy event as proved by their press reporting it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And finally \u201c<strong>Profit<\/strong>!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"Tweet-header u-cf\">\n<div class=\"TweetAuthor \" data-scribe=\"component:author\"><a class=\"TweetAuthor-link Identity u-linkBlend\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JulianAssange\" data-scribe=\"element:user_link\" aria-label=\"Julian Assange \ud83d\udd39 (screen name: JulianAssange)\"><span class=\"TweetAuthor-avatar Identity-avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Avatar Avatar--edge\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/841283762914656256\/2AyBiX8E_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-scribe=\"element:avatar\" data-src-2x=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/841283762914656256\/2AyBiX8E_bigger.jpg\" data-src-1x=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/841283762914656256\/2AyBiX8E_normal.jpg\" \/><\/span><span class=\"TweetAuthor-name Identity-name customisable-highlight\" title=\"Julian Assange \ud83d\udd39\" data-scribe=\"element:name\">Julian Assange <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Emoji Emoji--forText\" title=\"Small blue diamond\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/abs.twimg.com\/emoji\/v2\/72x72\/1f539.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udd39\" aria-label=\"Emoji: Small blue diamond\" \/><\/span> <span class=\"TweetAuthor-screenName Identity-screenName\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"@JulianAssange\" data-scribe=\"element:screen_name\">@JulianAssange<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Tweet-body e-entry-content\" data-scribe=\"component:tweet\">\n<p class=\"Tweet-text e-entry-title\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Want to be a Western journalist in 2017? You can do it!<\/p>\n<p>1) Pick random globally newsworthy event.<\/p>\n<p>Russian press will also be reporting it by definition.<\/p>\n<p>2) Write story: Russian state secretly behind globally newsworthy event as proved by their press reporting it.<\/p>\n<p>3) Profit!<\/p>\n<div class=\"Tweet-metadata dateline\"><a class=\"u-linkBlend u-url customisable-highlight long-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JulianAssange\/status\/916324049743241216\" data-datetime=\"2017-10-06T15:27:32+0000\" data-scribe=\"element:full_timestamp\"><time class=\"dt-updated\" title=\"Time posted: October 06, 2017 15:27:32 (UTC)\" datetime=\"2017-10-06T15:27:32+0000\">11:27 AM &#8211; Oct 6, 2017<\/time><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Assange\u2019s comments echo that of<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/09\/28\/yet-another-major-russia-story-falls-apart-is-skepticism-permissible-yet\/\"> The Intercept\u2019s Glenn Greenwald who, on September 28, reported <\/a>on the <strong>demise of \u201cyet another major Russia story\u201d that most major US media outlets ran with as fact, despite the lack of any evidence whatsoever<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Assange Outlines The 3 Simple Steps To &#8220;Being A Journalist In 2017&#8221; Haven\u2019t you heard? The Russians did it. Seemingly behind every major news event in the last number of years, Russia has been busy influencing world events simply by reporting on them, just like everyone else. And as RT notes, this, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[462,2001,496,512,694,827,4318],"class_list":["post-26575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-journalism","tag-julian-assange","tag-mainstream-media","tag-media","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26576,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26575\/revisions\/26576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}