{"id":56412,"date":"2021-01-11T18:03:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T23:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56412"},"modified":"2021-01-11T18:03:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T23:03:45","slug":"journalists-who-smear-assange-are-pure-scum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56412","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Journalists\u2019 Who Smear Assange Are Pure Scum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Journalists\u2019 Who Smear Assange Are Pure Scum<\/a><\/h3>\n
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I wouldn\u2019t have thought that any mass media reporters would have the temerity to continue the public smear campaign against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after it became clear to everyone that he was the subject of a brutal Trump administration prosecution aimed at criminalizing inconvenient journalism. But if there was going to be anyone to take up that flag, it would be the odious James Ball.<\/p>\n

Ball, who as activist Suzie Dawson\u00a0documented in 2016<\/a>\u00a0has been working within the plutocratic media to destroy Assange\u2019s reputation for years, has just published\u00a0yet another disgusting smear piece<\/a>\u00a0titled \u201cJulian Assange is no hero. I should know \u2014 I lived with him and his awful gang\u201d, this time with Murdoch\u2019s\u00a0Sunday Times<\/em>. Claiming that Assange is \u201cReckless and immoral in deed and word\u201d, Ball spins the tortured journalist as a monster who must remain marginalized and never be trusted by sources again.<\/p>\n

This would be the same James Ball who, as\u00a0Financial Eyes<\/em>\u00a0recently observed<\/a>, \u201cadmits to having taken money from the Integrity Initiative, a government and NATO funded propaganda unit designed to shape opinion in a direction hostile towards Russia and favourable towards increased militarism.\u201d<\/p>\n