{"id":169619,"date":"2020-10-05T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=169619"},"modified":"2020-10-01T10:05:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T09:05:36","slug":"the-guardians-deceit-riddled-new-statement-betrays-both-julian-assange-and-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/10\/the-guardians-deceit-riddled-new-statement-betrays-both-julian-assange-and-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian\u2019s Deceit-Riddled New Statement Betrays Both Julian Assange and Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>26 Sep 2020 – <\/em>In my recent post<\/a> on the current hearings at the Old Bailey over Julian Assange\u2019s extradition to the United States, where he would almost certainly be locked away for the rest of his life for the crime of doing journalism, I made two main criticisms of the Guardian.<\/p>\n

A decade ago, remember, the newspaper worked closely in collaboration with Assange and Wikileaks to publish the Iraq and Afghan war diaries, which are now the\u00a0grounds on which the US is basing its case to lock Assange behind bars in a super-max jail.<\/p>\n

My first criticism was that the paper had barely bothered to cover the hearing, even though it is the most concerted attack on press freedom in living memory. That position is unconscionably irresponsible, given its own role in publishing the war diaries. But sadly it is not inexplicable. In fact, it is all too easily explained by my second criticism.<\/p>\n

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A journalist due to testify at Julian Assange's extradition hearing makes a very pertinent point. This is the biggest attack on press freedom in our lifetimes. Why are UK editors not demanding to be heard at the Old Bailey? Where are they? Where is the Guardian? https:\/\/t.co\/fFRFvGpYdi<\/a><\/p>\n

— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) September 8, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n