{"id":168018,"date":"2020-09-07T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=168018"},"modified":"2020-09-03T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T09:14:00","slug":"premiere-the-war-on-journalism-the-case-of-julian-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/09\/premiere-the-war-on-journalism-the-case-of-julian-assange\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiere: The War on Journalism &#8212; The Case of Julian Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>28 Aug 2020 &#8211;<\/em> Journalists are under attack globally for doing their jobs. Julian Assange is facing a 175-year sentence for publishing if extradited to the United States. The Trump administration has gone from denigrating journalists as \u2018enemies of the people\u2019 to now criminalizing common practices in journalism that have long served the public interest.<\/p>\n<p>Imprisoned <em>WikiLeaks<\/em> founder and editor Assange\u2019s extradition is being sought by the Trump administration, in a hearing to begin Sept. 7,\u00a0 for publishing U.S. government documents, which exposed war crimes and human rights abuses. He is being held in maximum security HMP Belmarsh in London. There is a war on journalism and Julian Assange is at the centre of that war. If this precedent is set then what happens to Assange can happen to any journalist.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Join director Ken Loach and film-maker Suzie Gilbert for a discussion with Juan Passarelli about his new documentary \u2013 <em>The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wmpgh8MTKfg&amp;feature=youtu.be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 Aug 2020 &#8211; Imprisoned WikiLeaks founder and editor Assange\u2019s extradition is being sought in a hearing to begin 7 Sep for publishing documents that exposed U.S. government war crimes and human rights abuses. There is a war on journalism and Julian Assange is at the centre of it. If this precedent is set then what happens to Assange can happen to any journalist. MUST WATCH!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[229,918,910,942,487,378,651,234,911,454,572,639,292,70,126,921,113],"class_list":["post-168018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-activism","tag-assange","tag-big-brother","tag-ecuador","tag-human-rights","tag-journalism","tag-justice","tag-media","tag-surveillance","tag-sweden","tag-torture","tag-uk","tag-un","tag-usa","tag-violence","tag-whistleblowing","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}