Relentless campaign to smear Assange
Where would we be today without the relentless campaign against Julian Assange by mainstream media and unscrupulous journalists?
The public broadly support Assange, but much of this support is timid, passive and unlikely to strike fear in the authorities and deter them from committing further violence against him.
This is no accident. While typical reportage on Assange in Australia is likely to include brief remarks about the good his work has done, it is regularly overshadowed by personal attacks, debunked allegations, salaciousness, innuendo, outright smears and security-establishment talking points.
The campaign against Assange has been relentless and from all sides. In the United States and Britain it has been particularly vicious over the past year: