After twelve years, the end of Julian Assange’s “long way of the cross”
When Julian Assange first appeared on the international scene, many welcomed him as a hero, because he wanted to expose the misdeeds of the United States to the world. But others denounced his dubious methods, which, by putting many lives at risk, compromised in their view his quest for the free flow of information.
Over the years, the anger he aroused gradually turned into pity as the Australian journalist wallowed in his own nothingness. Initially, the Sydney Morning Herald expressed his distrust when Julian Assange gained global fame after disseminating documents on American military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
At the time, we pointed out that the most objectionable aspect of the WikiLeaks revelations was that they in no way masked the names and locations of dozens of Afghans who had provided information to US forces. , or who had not shown them any hostility. “It’s a virtual death sentence,” we wrote in our editorial of August 2, 2010.
Soon back in Australia
However, the WikiLeaks scoop also potentially risked dealing a terrible blow to the credibility of the United States. The repository of more than 700,000 documents included diplomatic cables and reports of combat operations, such as the 2007 video of a US Apache helicopter firing
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The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney)
Founded in 1831 as The Sydney Herald, this newspaper has been published continuously since, making it the oldest in Australia. Bought in 1841 by John Fairfax, it became the Sydney Morning Herald (The Sun Herald in its Sunday version). Considered a leading newspaper in the country, it is politically centre-left and, since the early 1960s, has supported almost all Labor candidates for the post of Prime Minister. At its beginnings, however, during the colonial era, it reflected the racist positions of the settlers, even justifying the murders of Aborigines. Two supplements from the Saturday edition (386,000 copies), News Review And Spectrum, analyze the news of the week in depth. Since 1849, there has been a Sunday edition (559,000 copies), Tea Sun Herald, more popular than intellectual.
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