Nothing mundane about this.
And the msm deserves every last drop of vitriol they get over this. Their deliberate and abject failure to put this into context for people results in comments like yours.
And the msm deserves every last drop of vitriol they get over this. Their deliberate and abject failure to put this into context for people results in comments like yours.
Why is it undeserved if they haven't changed their partisan tactics and misleading reporting despite all hate levelled at them for exactly these things?
It causes "harm" to call out their lies? Get real, they've fanned the flames for riots and other political violence for years now and that's far more harmful than calling them terrible for doing so.
I don't know where you are from, but in every country I ever lived it was readily apparent that their mainstream media is tasked with pushing the status quo, muzzle dissenting points of view and opinions, and persecute inconvenient political targets.
It boggles the mind the amount of cognitive dissonance that is rewired to simultaneously acknowledge private companies can easily manipulate the media to further their propaganda goals, but somehow deny political regimes do the same.
In Assange's case, it was readily apparent from the start that the accusations were a ruse to persecute and punish inconvenient voices under the excuse of a carefully fabricated accusation that was intended to be hard to defend on moral grounds.
It's also rather thin gruel. It generally relies on a sort of sleight-of-hand where you imply the media (or the mainstream media) is a single entity and define away counterexamples.