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TO BE CLEAR: Arrest & likely extradition of Julian Assange is a grave slippery slope for me & other journalists who take real risks (not the corporate stenographers that make up majority of media). If Assange is imprisoned for encouraging a source, what’s next? Arresting....
Journalists like me who’s sources consist largely of on the ground activists protesting police, corporations, & govt officials? For example, my cameraman @tommie_tyhefe & I were arrested covering a police brutality protest in St. Louis in 2017 and jailed overnight. With DOJ...
Persecution of Assange for classified documents, it becomes a slippery slope: first confined to classified documents, than to journalists “conspiring” with activists to “threaten” police or block “vital infrastructure” (already seeing these charges with journalists covering...
Pipeline protests), or journalists “conspiring” with or collaborating with sources who get their hands on financial documents the government doesn’t want out there. Can we then become “conspirators” in aiding threats to “national security.” This should not be a partisan issue
It’s not about whether you like Assange or @wikileaks. Or if you are still in mourning over 2016. This is about the 1st amendment and true democracy. If journalists like Julian Assange are put away for life for the crime of encouraging a source/trying to ensure that source is...
Protected (the alleged “password collaboration” wasn’t to access more information-it was to help protect Manning’s identity) than true journalism is a dying beast
