Thread by @HelenRazer

Why are you not acting on Assange?

Did you see an inspirational talk on Better Living through embrace of your Inner Cop?
If not, speak up.
First, they took the journalists.
#FreeAssange

And there was no one to speak up.
#FreeAssange

What's that they say about complicity and silence?
Why are you, a journalist in the nation-state Australia, not speaking up about Assange?
Are you afraid you'll end up like me? Don't worry. It's become acceptable now. You won't get the sack or thrown in prison.

Oh. Unless you want to work at the @GuardianAus or @ABCNewsLive or anywhere at @ABCaustralia. Don't mention this whole #FreeAssange thing, then.
You fucking cops.

Assange's is the biggest and most notable case of the state silencing an Australian since 1950 when @mariekehardy's granddad Frank copped it.
It is front page news. Or, it should be, as it was for Frank Hardy.
Speak up for your comrades. It was all the rage in 1950.
#FreeAssange

The Hardy case divided the nation-state and led to a referendum held by Pig Iron Bob. Menzies sought to ban communism. Australia voted no.
Just for the sake of Power Without Glory, you could divide from the frightened herd in this tradition
Speak up.
#FreeAssange

Stand by for some "epic zombie US Trump administration madness," apparently.
First up, the executive producer of @4corners
#FreeAssange

And, here's the EP of @4corners again. Retweeting an assertion that the Russia-obsessed Mueller Report didn't show.
Seems like Our ABC wants an Australian prisoner held in arbitrary detention.

Perhaps @4corners has a co-sponsorship deal with the Clintons?
Anyhoo. The ABC is not at all keen on getting Julian Assange a fair trial, it seems.

Here's your ABC boy-girl breakfast team on Assange. Who better than Michael Rowlands to assess "real journalism" apart from everyone.

Did Our ABC poach Patricia from the hard right Murdoch press where she wrote sympathetic columns on Andrew Bolt just to head up the new Get No Justice For Assange unit?

I'm really not sure why these ABC staffers use social media to urge for the imprisonment of Julian Assange. Maybe they have a contractual obligation to do so?
Could you tell me, @mjrowland68
#FreeAssange

Perhaps @ABCaustralia management could ask the many ABC broadcasters who have violated editorial policy to remove their vulgar opinions from this format seeing as how Julian Assange is currently on trial to face espionage charges laid by the Trump administration.
#FreeAssange

Hey, @PatsKarvelas.
Will you remove and apologise for your public tweets about Assange, a man currently on trial for extradition to face espionage charges laid by Trump's DoJ?

Hey, @Sophiemcneill. Will you remove and publicly revoke your public tweets about Julian Assange, a person currently facing trial in the UK for his extradition? Could be considered meddling by Australian state media. Just looking out for you.

Look. I don't mind writing to Ita.

Currently covering the Assange extradition hearing in the UK for @ABCaustralia is @samanthahawley. Here's her publicly declared view. It's aligned with the espionage charges laid by Trump's DoJ. But not ABC editorial policy.
#FreeAssange

Perhaps @thetowncrier and all at @ABCmediawatch could investigate the multiple violations of ABC editorial policy by ABC broadcasters on social media.
Or should we write directly to the board?
#AssangeTrial

Why does @ABCaustralia and @4corners in particular cling to the fiction that Assange is a pro-Trump monster yet passionately defend its decision to speak with the scum who used Goebbels' playbook to get Trump elected?
Steve Bannon and hostess:

Please. Any comrade with this proximity to Steve Bannon who does not take the opportunity to shit on him is a state collaborator.

I do worry about @4corners. And its executive producer's curious decisions on air and in retweets.

Hi, @abcnews. Have you corrected this error?
This is an error.

Hi again, @abcnews. You've been making a lot of errors in your coverage of the Julian Assange case.
I'm available to fact-check.

This is another error, @abcnews

This is an error.

Must be an error here, @abcnews.
Can't think why you'd assign the story of Julian Assange's trial to a broadcaster like @samanthahawley.who has made it clear she thinks little of its consequences

Error alert, @abcnews.
Your breakfast team is an error.

Error for you @abcnews. The EP of @4corners retweeted the statement that Julian Assange is "Putin's Bitch." The EP is an error.

The EP of @4corners is an error again, @abcnews.
Please correct.

But. For the minute, @abcnews, make sure you correct this factual error.

All these errors @abcnews.
Please correct.

Oh. Yes. Before I forget, @abcnews, it is an error to declare that Julian Assange was charged by Swedish authorities.
He was never charged. As you have continued to make this error for a decade, it'd be a good time to stop.
Not even @ABCmediawatch seems to know.

Error, @abcnews

Error

The thing is, @abcnews, these errors you persistently make formed an erroneous view. This erroneous view formed editorial. This editorial formed a prosecuting argument at Assange's extradition hearing.
This forms my complaint: stop taking a piss in justice.

And correct your error, @abcnews, of assigning @samanthahawley the Assange story. She is clearly far too biased to report.

Please unroll, @threadreaderapp