Assange to media: You are ‘increasingly not very important’
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday blasted US media outlets, contending in an interview that the power possessed by journalists had greatly diminished in recent years.
“They’re increasingly not very important,” Assange said in a radio interview with Sean Hannity.
The Fox News host agreed: “So true.”
Assange characterized the press as a “paper tiger” in the 2016 election and said the rise of new media had eroded the influence of traditional outlets.
“The old press is less important,” he said.
Assange took particular issue with the “liberal press,” blaming such journalists for a “degree of bias” that chased away readers.
“Readers see that. They feel it,” he said. “They don’t like being lectured or told what to do. And they rebel against it.”
December 16, 2016
What Trump has masterfully done to the MSM reminds me of the scene at the end of the Star Wars movie where the dying Darth Vader removes his black helmet to reveal the pale and powerless shriveled prune of a face underneath. https://shutupnsing.wordpress.com/2016/12/18/the-sunday-morning-tune-up-the-deadliest-vice-by-a-country-mile/