You remember Julian, don't you?
Ten years ago he was something of a hero for about fifteen minutes or so. In collaboration with some big-name media outlets, he facilitated the release of this video exposing US war crimes.
It didn't take long for his big-name media collaborators to get reined in. They were read the riot act. There's one red line that's redder than red; you don't expose American war crimes.
The champions of free speech in our media quickly forgot all about Julian, who wasn't really a journalist after all. Besides, by exposing US war crimes he might have exposed some US operatives out there spreading freedom and democracy.
He might have put their lives at risk.
No comments:
Post a Comment