{"id":269078,"date":"2024-07-15T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=269078"},"modified":"2024-07-15T10:25:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T09:25:42","slug":"julian-assange-and-the-criminalization-of-journalism-a-story-of-moral-injury-and-moral-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/07\/julian-assange-and-the-criminalization-of-journalism-a-story-of-moral-injury-and-moral-courage\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange and the Criminalization of Journalism: A Story of Moral Injury and Moral Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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8 Jul 2024 <\/em>– \u2018The truth will out\u2019, or so the saying goes. The question is, at least in a modern context, is how much injury \u2013 moral and otherwise \u2013 is suffered by the courageous men and women trying to expose it? Psychologist and researcher Kari James<\/strong> explores that answer.<\/p>\n

12th<\/sup> July 2007:<\/strong> Two US Apache helicopters unleash 30mm cannon fire on a group of Iraqi civilians. Two of them are Reuters journalists \u2013 Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh.<\/p>\n

Twelve are killed, including both journalists and a passing van driver who stops to help the wounded. The van driver\u2019s two young children, passengers at the time, are severely wounded.<\/p>\n

The journalists\u2019 cameras were later retrieved from the soldiers who had seized them. They indicated no evidence<\/a> of the firefight the US military claimed had prompted the strike.<\/p>\n

5th<\/sup> April 2010:<\/strong> WikiLeaks releases a video titled Collateral Murder<\/em><\/a>, confirmed as authentic by the US military<\/a>. The grainy footage taken from one of the Apaches documents the casual slaughter of noncombatants. You can hear the crew laughing at some of the casualties.<\/p>\n