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Jun 25, 2024 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
It's a joyful day for the family and friends of @wikileaks founder #JulianAssange, especially his wife @Stella_Assange and their boys Max And Gabriel. I'm glad their long ordeal is over. People forget: Incarceration punishes not just the imprisoned, but their whole family.
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@wikileaks @Stella_Assange Julian is free in fact, and will soon be so in law, after a guilty plea he's due to enter at a US federal court in the remote South Pacific US territory of Saipan.
But the shadow his prosecution cast over #PressFreedom in the US hasn't dispersed. Alas, it is darker than ever. 2/
Jun 6, 2024 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
The kids are asleep and I finally have time to share some important context about tonight's @nytimes revelations re the departure of @SallyBuzbee from the @washingtonpost -- and in particular the role of former @WSJ publisher and Post CEO Will Lewis.
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When Rupert Murdoch bought The Times & Sunday Times in 1981, the British newspaper landscape was one in which tabloid news values, exemplified by Murdoch's Sun and News of the World, often set the agenda for the news media as a whole. Their front page stories often led TV news 2/
