2/23/23 Andrew Cockburn: How the Media Failed Julian Assange

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🗓️ 25 February 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Andrew Cockburn joined Scott on Antiwar Radio to talk about Julian Assange. Cockburn wrote an article for Harper’s Magazine about the hypocrisy of mainstream journalists in their refusal to stand up for the condemned publisher of government secrets. After a quick rundown of who Assange is, why he’s important and where he is now, Cockburn and Scott discuss that Harper’s article. Discussed on the show: “Alternative Facts: How the media failed Julian Assange” (Harper’s Magazine) “An open letter from editors and publishers: Publishing is not a Crime” (The Guardian) “Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks” (Yahoo News) Scott’s interview with Jeffery Carr about the DNC hack Andrew Cockburn is the Washington editor of Harper’s Magazine and the author of Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins. Follow him on Twitter @andrewmcockburn. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	For Pacifica Radio, February 23,
0:05.0	I'm Scott Horton.
0:07.0	This is anti-war radio.
0:14.0	I'm your host Scott Horton.
0:25.6	I'm editorial director of anti-war.com, an editor of the new book Hotter Than the Sun,
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0:43.0	dot com slash Scott Horton show
0:45.0	and you follow me on Twitter if you dare at Scott Horton show
0:49.0	and this is anti-war radio on KPFK 90.7 fm in LA. I'm Scott Horton.
0:55.4	And next up is the great Andrew Coburn.
0:58.3	Andrew is the Washington editor of Harper's magazine and his most recent book is called The Spoils of War and man he's got this great article I really hope that you guys will read it and pass it around and show it to naysayers and people who don't know or don't understand or got it wrong or need to find out.
1:17.0	It's called how the media failed.
1:20.0	Julian Assange.
1:22.0	Welcome back to the show. Andrew. How are you, sir?
1:24.0	Hey, very well, very well. I'm delighted to be with you.
1:27.0	Great to have you back on the show.
1:29.0	I'm also so grateful for this piece that you wrote about Julian Assange because I know that pretty much
1:35.9	nobody knows what you know about this and the story that you really take us all
1:40.4	the way through it. The controversy surrounding this guy and I think you really illustrate
1:45.8	why the rest of the media has forsaken him the way that they have. But so first of all,
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