Re: <nettime> The Guardian analysis/ Julian Borger on Assange's new indictment

[John Young <jya@pipeline.com>]

Government-privileged press is rabidly disclaiming its role in 
sacrificing Assange, WikiLeaks, Snowden, Winner, Hale, et al, to 
maintain its hegemony in deciding what the public is allowed to know. 
Shame on its shamelessness of guilt-avoiding complicity.
What Assange is accused of should be seen as a starting point for 
what needs to be expanded well beyond where cosseted and cowed press 
-- overly-lawyered and profit-seeking, forever seeking official 
approval to protect its prestige and business -- will not venture.
So too for researchers, academics, NGOs, even, pardon rudeness, these 
very strutting, cowardly, verbose, media-quoting fora.
National security ideology is a long-lived pharma insistently 
dispensed to eagerly downed by anxious and insecure populace, 
especially by the highly intelligent who gain their rewards by 
obedience and comforting critique to assure fees, sales, perqs, 
medical care and pensions.
Guardian, NYT, WaPo, bigger the name, bigger the complicity in "not 
going too far," that is bypassing their restrictions. Oh well, press 
religion gets constitutional access to secretkeeping sanctums with 
instructions on how to massage the body politic's strictly enforced 
info consumption. Headlines and bylines rule the flow.

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