Today’s arrest of Julian Assange is terrifying to actual journalists. To CNN and MSNBC, it’s a cause to celebrate as people who don’t break news have nothing to worry about.pic.twitter.com/YRM1iVnatT
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Watch the media shape the narrative in real time.
“Hack U.S. computers.”
They want their viewers to infer falsely that Assange was arrested for the DNC hack.
This is an A/B test as @ScottAdamsSays predicted.pic.twitter.com/YL0oZFwiDB
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20th century classical media in the 21st century. They find their consumer bases bias, repackage it, amplify it and use it to sell ads. Instead of trying to make us a little brighter they dumb us down to the lowest common angry bias. Worse than Social Media
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Was the threat of the administration pulling aid from South American countries the cause of his ejection from the embassy?
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I know. I called my mom in Ecuador and she referred to Assange as “the hacker”. That is how the government there presents him
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Trying to reshape narrative is desperate attempt to keep RussiaGate alive. But do they seem unusually hysterical about Assange? There must be a reason & we know it's not best interests of
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Those who are not familiar with the facts that disprove this narrative, please check out
@with_integrity's work. - End of conversation
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The charges were in regards to Manning, correct?
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This is true, and a astute observation. But that doesn't exonerate him for hacking government computers in 2010. He still goes to jail.
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Says the "Hacks"?
@CNN
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The Indictment said he helped Snowden try to break passwords. I think that is more than just breaking stories.
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