Why Aren't Journalists Howling About the Assange Prosecution?

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Why Aren't Journalists Howling About the Assange Prosecution?

On this Monday's Reason Roundtable, Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Nick Gillespie dive into inflation, civil asset forfeiture, and the extradition of Julian Assange.

Discussed in the show:

1:36: Julian Assange and freedom of the press.

17:15: Inflation and the Biden administration.

32:39: Weekly Listener Question: I live in L.A. county, where the new D.A. has taken a lot of heat for decisions he has made related to charging and sentencing, or rather the lack thereof, of relatively minor crimes. I fully support bail reform and other causes George Gascón has implemented. Is he someone who has the right ideas but is in power at the wrong time? Or is it just human nature to take as much advantage of a system as we think we can get away with? Put another way, is the pandemic just making everyone crazy, or are certain criminal justice reforms destined to increase crime regardless of outside circumstances?

45:50: Civil asset forfeiture!

49:20: Media recommendations for the week. (And click here for all the Roundtable's media recommendations, ever.)

This week's links:

• "Julian Assange Extradition Decision the Latest Blow to Freedom of the Press," by J.D. Tuccille
• "Few approve of President Biden's handling of inflation," by Mallory Newall and Hailey Foster
• "By Refusing To End Trump's Tariffs, Biden Is Making Inflation Worse," by Eric Boehm
• "Florida's Civil Asset Forfeiture Reforms Haven't Stopped the Shakedowns," by C.J. Ciaramella
• "The Civil Asset Forfeiture Racket," by A. Barton Hinkle

Send your questions to [e-mail]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.

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Audio production by Ian Keyser
Assistant production by Regan Taylor
Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve

What are we consuming this week?

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Interview With the Vampire, by Anne Rice

Peter Suderman

• West Side Story

Nick Gillespie

• Liminality, at the Museum of Future Experience

Matt Welch

• Cher's West Side Story

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Comments

[Kristian H.]

Because they are shills for big gov, so this isn't 'real' to them?

Wait, was this a trick question?

[Rob Misek]

Behind big gov, follow the money.

[Caridad Seim]

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[BrockReeks]

Great

[Chumby]

One word: Biden

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Three words. Fuck Joe Biden.

[Lachowsky]

Because trump started the prosecution and biden is contunuing it.

It is a truly bipartisan pastime to prosecute those who embarass the deep state.

Assange is in prison because bush, obama, trump, and biden want him there.

[NOYB2]

Obama started the prosecution.

[BILKER]

why aren't they howling about facebook getting PAID for doing the same thing???

[hpearce]

"Why Aren't Journalists Howling About the Assange Prosecution?"

2 possible reasons

1) Obama 's admin was the first to want to prosecute

2) Journalists believe in the restrictions on freedom of the press for the "legitimate" press which they do not consider Assange a part of

[Chumby]

He’d never get invited to one of their cocktail parties where they brag about getting chosen to ask the preselected questions at the WH presser.

[A Thinking Mind]

Yup. He's not a "real" journalist, and only real journalists are special citizens like them

[R Mac]

They actually believe this.

[Ken Shultz]

"Why Aren't Journalists Howling About the Assange Prosecution?"

Because he made Obama look bad, and that's the unpardonable sin.

[Entelechy]

"Why Aren't Journalists Howling About the Assange Prosecution?"

Because John Podesta is a lot scarier than John Fauci and knows a lot more about masks

[JesseAz]

The same reason they didn't howl at the DoJ invading the homes of Project Veritas, the political jailing if J6 parades, leaking of DoJ confidential documents from PV to the NYT, ignored the hunter laptop, ignored the Biden graft generally, barely give pause to Hunters art hustle, ignored Ashley Biden's diary...

Need I go on?

[Mother's Lament]

Think of the press as a disinformation operation controlled by the American people’s enemies and you won’t go far wrong.

[Mickey Rat]

Because Assange's escapade with Manning embarrassed the Obama administration, and Assange hurt the Democrat's and Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2016, so he can be partially blamed for Trump. Assange betrayed the cause. Also, they do not consider Assange a journalist, he is outside the protection of their guild. It is exactly why journalists are not outraged by the legal attacks on Project Veritas.

[Mother's Lament]

As we all know, the sole purpose of current journalism is to protect members of the Democratic Party and their friends.
The more strenuously you defend them, the better you are at journalism and the more awards you get.

[Dillinger]

howl first at the extradition how the fuck are they pulling that off?

is like in Johnny Dangerously when the paper says Moroni Deported. Claims He's Not From There.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Why Aren't Journalists Howling About the Assange Prosecution?

Uhm, this is only a question one would ask if they haven't been paying attention to journalists the last five to seven years.

[Nobartium]

What a retarded question.

It's because Assange makes them look like fools. That makes him an outgroup. No rights for the outgroup.

[Jerryskids]

Why would journalists be interested at all about Assange being extradited? What a strange question, it's not like Assange is a journalist.

[JeremyR]

He's not, but he is basically a publisher, which is even more important.

[NOYB2]

As far as professional journalists are concerned, Assange is unwelcome competition, someone who undermines their power and embarrasses their paymasters.

[mad.casual]

+1

[Trigger Warning]

Because establishment journalists are craven and intellectually lazy, and afraid of having their "access" revoked?

[R Mac]

Lot of good answers in the comments.

Did anyone listen to the podcast? Wondering if they had any similar ones?

[Vernon Depner]

What journalists? Are there journalists?

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Well if Reason gave a shit about Assange they could have devoted a few more pixels to his plight back when some people were begging for somebody, anybody to cover the story. There might have been a chance to influence opinion here and in the UK. Instead Reason lectured us on a daily basis about the first amendment rights of oligarchs and Sullum's masturbatory fantasies about Liz Cheney. That window has closed and Assange, who just had a stroke, will surely die in a federal gulag.

[NOYB2]

What do you expect? Reason is little different from other journalistic outlets.

[Joe Friday]

Assange is a Russian agent, a fact made clear by his joining with them and the Trump campaign in 2016 as well as his never publishing their secrets, only those of the US.

According to the GOP led Senate Intel Comm report of 2020 on Russian and Trump campaign collusion in the 2016 US presidential election "WikiLeaks actively sought, and played, a key role in the Russian intelligence campaign and very likely knew it was assisting a Russian intelligence influence effort."[217]

[Vernon Depner]

You've fallen into the Kool Aid and drowned.

[NOYB2]

Are you a paid Chinese troll or are you really this gullible?

[Flaco]

Great reference to Taxi Driver, the greatest film of all time, at 27:22. We ARE the people vs WE are the people.

Was that Suderman talking? I get them mixed up.

[NOYB2]

The press is a government protected cartel.

Assange isn’t part of that cartel and doesn’t play by its rules. So they want him destroyed.

[Frank Sterle Jr.]

I have found only small quantities of objective information on this, and many other U.S. foreign-policy topics, in Western mainstream news-media.
Every culture/nation has its own propaganda and core beliefs, true and false; though some culture/nations — usually the biggest, most powerful — are much more corrupt and brutal than the smaller, weaker ones. ...
The following excerpt is from an article written by freelance journalist Chris Hedges, titled “What happened to Assange will happen to the rest of us”. It was published Nov.2, 2020 for/by Common Ground magazine.

" ... Assange earned the enmity of the Democratic Party establishment by publishing 70,000 hacked emails belonging to the Democratic National Committee and senior Democratic officials. The emails were copied from the accounts of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman. The Podesta emails exposed the donation of millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, two of the major funders of Islamic State. It exposed the $657,000 that Goldman Sachs paid to Hillary Clinton to give talks, a sum so large it can only be considered a bribe.

It exposed Clinton’s repeated mendacity. She was caught in the emails, for example, telling the financial elites that she wanted 'open trade and open borders' and believed Wall Street executives were best positioned to manage the economy, a statement that contradicted her campaign statements. It exposed the Clinton campaign’s efforts to influence the Republican primaries to ensure that Donald Trump was the Republican nominee. It exposed Clinton’s advance knowledge of questions in a primary debate. It exposed Clinton as the principal architect of the war in Libya, a war she believed would burnish her credentials as a presidential candidate. Journalists can argue that this information, like the war logs, should have remained hidden, but they can’t then call themselves journalists. ... "

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[The Great Negro]

(Activates sarc signal)
Idiocy to follow.

[JesseAz]

Or the journalist who was charged with assault with a deadly weapon for pulling it while being attacked by antifa.