Tuesday December 21, 2010
Wikifeuds:
Assange Falls Out With The Guardian
Julian Assange has fallen out with two senior journalists on The Guardian and it is alleged he has severed all connections with the newspaper. More remarkably, it is claimed that he will now deal instead with The Times -- a newspaper not renowned for sympathetic coverage of the Wikileaks affair.
The feud came about when The Guardian published leaked details of the allegations against Assange supplied to his legal team. Assange has characterised this action as an attempt to derail his bail application.
But is Assange guilty of a double standard?
From The Register:
The Times denies any exclusive deal, and has been one of WikiLeaks' and Assange's most vociferous UK critics since the Afghanistan war logs were published. He apparently overlooked that in his interview with the paper however, in which he instead rounded on his former partners at the Guardian.
"The leak of the police report to the Guardian was clearly designed to undermine my bail application," he claimed.
Assange's intolerance of any questioning of his decisions is well documented, so the Guardian can hardly be surprised at its former friend's reaction. Several WikiLeakers, including German spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg, left the organisation earlier this year to set up a new transparency project with a flatter power structure, after comparing Assange's behaviour to that of "some kind of emperor".
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