I remember this case being all over the news when I was on holidays this summer. The guy the article refers to is Julian Assange, he is the main spokesman for Wikileaks and sits on its main advisory board, he is also credited as being one of the founders of the Wikileaks website. Anyway within the space of about 24 hours a warrant for his arrest for sexual misconduct was very publicly issued, only to be revoked by the end of the day. Alot of people (including me cos im paranoid) think this was a smear campaign just to blacken his name, especially given the nature of the website, and the fact that prior to these claims Wikileaks was about to release alot of sensitive documents about the US. Anyway you can check out an article about thsese claims here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug/25/julian-assange-wikileaks-sweden-investigation
The article raises a few issues, like smear campaigns, which maybe we could bring into our narrative. It also raises a few questions about what makes the news, when this story broke it was the first time i could remember Wikileaks actually being featured on prime time television. I think this is a bit strange becuase given all of the documents Wikileaks have released, it takes sexual misconduct claim for them to become newsworthy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug/25/julian-assange-wikileaks-sweden-investigation
The article raises a few issues, like smear campaigns, which maybe we could bring into our narrative. It also raises a few questions about what makes the news, when this story broke it was the first time i could remember Wikileaks actually being featured on prime time television. I think this is a bit strange becuase given all of the documents Wikileaks have released, it takes sexual misconduct claim for them to become newsworthy.
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