Jonathan Cook: Why Western Media Is Afraid of Julian Assange
Saturday, February 25th, 2023 @ 4:07 pm | You Think So
At the end of last month Jonathan Cook , an award-winning British journalist, spoke before a group gathered to hear speeches about Secret Power, Media Freedom and Democracy, held at St Pancras Church, London, on Saturday 28 January 2023. Other speakers were former British ambassador Craig Murray and Italian investigative journalist Stefania Maurizi, author of the recent Secret Power: Wikileaks and its Enemies.
Jeremy Corbyn, former leader of the British Labour Party, presented the Gavin MacFayden award, the only media prize voted on by whistleblowers, to Julian Assange for being “the journalist whose work most exemplifies the importance of a free press”. Craig Murray accepted the award on Assange’s behalf. Murray is a close personal friend of Assange, his wife, and his family.
“What drives a paper like the Guardian or New York Times is not their inner moral values. It is simply that they have a market. In the UK, there is a market called “educated liberals”. Educated liberals want to buy a newspaper like the Guardian, and therefore an institution arises to fulfil that market. … What is in the newspaper is not a reflection of the values of the people in that institution, it is a reflection of the market demand.” Julian Assange
In his Substack account Jonathan Cook memorialized his remarks presented as he advocates for a fellow journalist as well as for all the journalists who are affected by this incident.
In the video Cook provides a breakdown of what journalism is, how Julian Assange, and Wikileaks changed the industry.
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