Our media are waxing indignant over the Protasevich incident. An obscure 26 year old journalist whose career trajectory has consisted primarily of toiling for US funded "news" operations in Eastern Europe was taken into custody in Belarus after his commercial flight was forced down by a Belarus fighter jet.
Viola! A new icon of press freedom is born!
So why do we celebrate free-press champion Roman Protasevich, while allowing free-press champion Julian Assange to rot in a UK prison?
That's easy enough!
Julian Assange is a fierce critic of American Empire.
Roman Protasevich is an employee of the American Empire.
"Press freedom" has absolutely nothing to do with it.
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