{"id":177833,"date":"2019-05-28T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/28\/consider-the-source-3\/"},"modified":"2019-05-28T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T23:44:00","slug":"consider-the-source-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/28\/consider-the-source-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Consider the Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Rachel Maddow, who has been banging the, &#8220;Julian Assange is a Russian agent,&#8221; drum relentlessly for the past 2+ years has <a href=\"http:\/\/failedevolution.blogspot.com\/2019\/05\/professional-assange-smearers-finally.html\">realized that her ox is gored as well<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Rachel Maddow has aired a segment condemning the new indictment against Julian Assange for 17 alleged violations of the Espionage Act.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that Rachel Maddow.<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC\u2019s top host began the segment after it was introduced by Chris Hayes, agreeing with her colleague that it\u2019s surprising that more news outlets aren\u2019t giving this story more \u201cwall to wall\u201d coverage, given its immense significance. She recapped Assange\u2019s various legal struggles up until this point, then accurately described Assange\u2019s new Espionage Act charges for publishing secret documents.  <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"> \u201cAnd these new charges are not about stealing classified information or outsmarting computer systems in order to illegally obtain classified information,\u201d Maddow said. \u201cIt\u2019s not about that. These new charges are trying to prosecute Assange for publishing that stolen, secret material which was obtained by somebody else. And that is a whole different kettle of fish then what he was initially charged with.\u201d <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"> \u201cBy charging Assange for publishing that stuff that was taken by Manning, by issuing these charges today, the Justice Department has just done something you might have otherwise thought was impossible,\u201d Maddow added after explaining the unprecedented nature of this case. \u201cThe Justice Department today, the Trump administration today, just put every journalistic institution in this country on Julian Assange\u2019s side of the ledger. On his side of the fight. Which, I know, is unimaginable. But that is because the government is now trying to assert this brand new right to criminally prosecute people for publishing secret stuff, and newspapers and magazines and investigative journalists and all sorts of different entities publish secret stuff all the time. That is the bread and butter of what we do.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Publishing information that someone else does not want published is journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Anything else is stenography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Maddow, who has been banging the, &#8220;Julian Assange is a Russian agent,&#8221; drum relentlessly for the past 2+ years has realized that her ox is gored as well: Rachel Maddow has aired a segment condemning the new indictment against Julian Assange for 17 alleged violations of the Espionage Act. Yes, that Rachel Maddow. MSNBC\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[387,523,501],"class_list":["post-177833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-hypocrisy","tag-journalism","tag-secrecy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}