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'None Of It Reported': How Corporate Media Buried The Assange Trial
http://www.medialens.org/2020/none-of-it-reported-how-corporate-media-buried-the-assange-trial/Date Written: 2020-10-07 Publisher: Medialens Year Published: 2020 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX24117 When it comes to arguably the most important political trial in our lifetimes, there is a not-so-curious media reluctance to dwell on it or even mention it, never mind grant it the kind of blanket coverage that celebrity trials regularly generate. Thus, media attention given to the extradition hearing of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder and editor, was minimal and dwarfed by the coverage devoted to the actor Johnny Depp over the summer. Subject Headings |