{"id":36267,"date":"2018-07-30T07:53:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T12:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36267"},"modified":"2018-07-30T07:53:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T12:53:22","slug":"in-refusing-to-defend-assange-mainstream-media-exposes-its-true-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36267","title":{"rendered":"In Refusing To Defend Assange, Mainstream Media Exposes Its True\u00a0Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Refusing To Defend Assange, Mainstream Media Exposes Its True\u00a0Nature<\/a>\"\"<\/h3>\n
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Last Tuesday a top lawyer for the New York Times<\/em> named David McCraw warned a room full of judges<\/a> that the prosecution of Julian Assange for WikiLeaks publications would set a very dangerous precedent which would end up hurting mainstream news media outlets like NYT, the Washington Post<\/em>, and other outlets which publish secret government documents.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the prosecution of him would be a very, very bad precedent for publishers,\u201d McCraw said. \u201cFrom that incident, from everything I know, he\u2019s sort of in a classic publisher\u2019s position and I think the law would have a very hard time drawing a distinction between The New York Times and WikiLeaks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do you know where I read about this? Not in the New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cCuriously, as of this writing, McCraw\u2019s words have found no mention in the\u00a0Times\u00a0<\/i>itself,\u201d activist Ray McGovern wrote<\/a> for the alternative media outlet Consortium News<\/em>. \u201cIn recent years, the newspaper has shown a marked proclivity to avoid printing anything that might risk its front row seat at the government trough.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Though The New York Times itself has not reported it, it\u2019s No. 2 lawyer told a group of judges that the prosecution of Julian Assange could have dire consequences for the Times itself, explains Ray McGovern.https:\/\/<\/span>consortiumnews.com\/2018\/07\/25\/the-gray-lady-thinks-twice-about-assanges-prosecution\/\u00a0<\/span>\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Gray Lady Thinks Twice About Assange’s Prosecution<\/strong><\/p>\n

Though The New York Times itself has not reported it, it’s No. 2 lawyer told a group of West Coast judges that prosecution of Julian Assange by the U.S. government could have dire consequences for…<\/p>\n

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So let\u2019s unpack that a bit. It is now public knowledge that the Ecuadorian government is actively seeking to turn Assange over to be arrested by the British government. This was initially reported by RT<\/a>, then independently confirmed by The Intercept<\/em><\/a>, and is today full mainstream public knowledge being reported by mainstream outlets like CNN<\/a>.<\/div>\n

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In Refusing To Defend Assange, Mainstream Media Exposes Its True\u00a0Nature Last Tuesday a top lawyer for the New York Times named David McCraw warned a room full of judges that the prosecution of Julian Assange for WikiLeaks publications would set a very dangerous precedent which would end up hurting mainstream news media outlets like NYT, […]<\/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":[6],"tags":[17039,1368,2001,496,1921,2080,827,880],"class_list":["post-36267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-eduador","tag-julian-assange","tag-mainstream-media","tag-new-york-times","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36267","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=36267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36268,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36267\/revisions\/36268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}