Wikileaks founder walks out of CNN interview

[The Vegan Marxist]

Of course, when a defenseless worker gets suspended, the company isn’t questioned at all. But when a powerful weapon against US imperialism suspends a worker, it’s something that mainstream media must address over more important issues at hand. (sarcasm)

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[~Spectre]

He caught her in a straight up lie to begin the interview. Good for him. Several media sites that I've seen have already resorted to this tactic. ABC actually embedded a video about the allegations against Assange, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE of their writing about the Iraq leaks.

This isn't even media bias. This is just vulgar, 1984 level propaganda.

[¿Que?]

Wikileaks. Lot's a good leaks this time around. Keep 'em coming!:cubaflag:

[KC]

Drama sells. This is just an example of the media as a mode of production, nothing more, nothing less.

[Rusty Shackleford]

The US government and almost all US based information agencies work together, usually in the interest of the US government, and sometimes, in the interest of the bourgeoisie directly a la Fox.

So, im not surprised that CNN, the station which championed its war coverage, is acting like this in an interview.

Its kind of like that whole current issue around NPR firing the employee who went on fox ans said he felt uncomfortable being on a plane with someone dressed in muslim garb, stating his or her religious beliefs. Apparently a person with a jesus, or mary shirt isnt that big of a deal. How about a yarmulke? oh no!

[Fulanito de Tal]

Of course, when a defenseless worker gets suspended, the company isn’t questioned at all. But when a powerful weapon against US imperialism suspends a worker, it’s something that mainstream media must address over more important issues at hand. (sarcasm)

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Where do you get your sources from?
And to you speak to them?
Which ones?

That's great interviewing! Turn that shit back on her.

[The Vegan Marxist]

Yeah, by 0:34 you pretty much can tell she realized her plan failed miserably & had to admit that it was one staff member that came to her. In fact, if a staff member had to go to mainstream media to try & denounce wikileaks, then I would've fired his/her ass on the spot too!

[~Spectre]

Larry King just tried to do the same thing to Assange. Fucking scum.

[gorillafuck]

I like how he makes these interviewers who try to slander him look like morons.

[La Comédie Noire]

More people should walk out on the U.S. media. It's so obtuse and disingenuous, like they just try to get people upset for entertainment.

I like how she was shrugging her shoulders like an asshole with a "what did I do?" face on. She knows exactly what she did and it failed miserably.

[Barry Lyndon]

The bourgeois media is terrified of Julian Assange because he exposed them as frauds and liars and boot-licking shills for Empire. He just needs to throw that in their face over and over again.

He should watch his back, though. I don't think he is going to be targeted for just character assassination at this point.

[The Vegan Marxist]

Larry King just tried to do the same thing to Assange. Fucking scum.

Is there a video that shows what happened during this interview?

[WeAreReborn]

Good for him, Fuck CNN and their corrupt agenda. I have a lot more respect for Wikileaks now, I'm sure that isn't what the interviewer wanted to happen. :lol:

[t.shonku]

This Wikileaks founder is a great guy:thumbup1:.It seems he is not afraid of anyone.Keep those leeks coming brother!.


Look at how this guy silenced this corporate reporter (aka corporate lier).This guy seems to have a great personality.

I hope in future Wikileaks do some investigations on Nepal,India and Philippines as well

But I am afraid that Wikileaks might get closed:(.(CIA might try to close it)

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[~Spectre]

This Wikileaks founder is a great guy:thumbup1:.It seems he is not afraid of anyone.Keep those leeks coming brother!.


Look at how this guy silenced this corporate reporter (aka corporate lier).This guy seems to have a great personality.

I hope in future Wikileaks do some investigations on Nepal,India and Philippines as well

But I am afraid that Wikileaks might get closed:(.(CIA might try to close it)

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They've been trying for years. The U.S. government already had internal discussions for the need to stop Wikileaks several years ago. They concluded that the best strategy would be to come down hard on whistle blowers so that it would discredit the promise of anonymity that Wikileaks is based on.

We know this because the memo was eventually posted on Wikileaks. :)

[ckaihatsu]

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The bourgeois media is terrified of Julian Assange because he exposed them as frauds and liars and boot-licking shills for Empire. He just needs to throw that in their face over and over again.





What's far more promising in the present day are new developments in open-sourcing *information* that was developed with public funds but then kept secret from the public. You may be familiar with the WikiLeaks action -- possibly precedent-setting (I don't know) -- in which the public was *given back* some War-on-Afghanistan-related information that its funds had developed, in the form of a 1.4 gigabyte downloadable encrypted archive file.

So in essence the nationalist intelligence / security agencies' role became more "open-source", since WikiLeaks appealed to the U.S. government to cooperate in the selective protecting of sensitive information from the file, with the possibility of releasing the information verbatim to the public as a fall-back option simply by publishing the encryption key.

[Wanted Man]

There was a surprisingly good little piece on Assange in a free daily newspaper (De Pers) today. It basically denounced the hypocrisy of all the big papers of the "quality press" in Britain and the UK; apparently, Wikileaks had delayed the release of the Iraq files for some time so that all the media had the time to make decent stories out of them. All these quality papers extensively used the Wikileaks reports; but when all was said and done, they turned their back on Assange and all of them suddenly started denouncing him as a nutcase, a tinfoil hat type, a rapist, a man who leads Wikileaks in a dictatorial fashion, etc.

[Ocean Seal]

"This video contains CNN Europe who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds"
Watched another video
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoKcOOYFszs&feature=player_embedded#! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoKcOOYFszs&feature=player_embedded#%21)

Assange was acquitted yet the government is still after him. Liberals like the writers of the New York Times have stopped attacking the government and started licking boot. Seriously, this man comes out with the truth and this is how the world responds. Julian Assange is a living legend, a hero of the people. God bless the man, and bless whoever is standing by to pick up the whistle. Doesn't the mainstream media have anything better to do than slander someone who stands up for the people (Oh wait they don't the only thing they're going to do now is cover up the story hoping that people will forget about it).

[ckaihatsu]

Liberals like the writers of the New York Times have stopped attacking the government and started licking boot.


Here....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller_(journalist)


'Nuff said.

[cb9's_unity]

I recently read an article that questioned if Assange realized that the leaks was also making the Iranian and Iraqi governments look bad. It's an example about how the whole U.S media see's Assange as a single minded man who has made it his mission to tear down the U.S government and the U.S government alone.

[RED DAVE]

More fun and games: CNN has blocked the video "on copyright grounds." Hope it goes viral.

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[Ocean Seal]

More fun and games: CNN has blocked the video "on copyright grounds." Hope it goes viral.

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Just check the link I posted, it is the same video, and yes its essentially gone viral with many youtubers supporting Assange.

[La Comédie Noire]

This could be the start of something, instead of progressives and revolutionaries alike wasting their time with the U.S. media it would be better to simply not deal with it.

Don't legitimize it by taking it seriously, just walk away. Why play their game anymore?

[~Spectre]

This could be the start of something, instead of progressives and revolutionaries alike wasting their time with the U.S. media it would be better to simply not deal with it.

Don't legitimize it by taking it seriously, just walk away. Why play their game anymore?

It's an interesting tactical question. On some level, with their wide reach, it's still probably necessary to engage with them.

[ckaihatsu]

This could be the start of something, instead of progressives and revolutionaries alike wasting their time with the U.S. media it would be better to simply not deal with it.

Don't legitimize it by taking it seriously, just walk away. Why play their game anymore?





It's an interesting tactical question. On some level, with their wide reach, it's still probably necessary to engage with them.


I figure this is the terrain of the "soft" left -- they tend to get more involved in the goings-on of Empire, as around minor day-to-day propaganda efforts, petty battles over secondary skirmishes -- "sub-politics", I call it....