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journalism, freedom of speech, democratic rights. Quite generally, we can't stand by and permit
this monstrous offense against our highest values to proceed.
Jimmy Dore
If I could just ask you a follow up on that, why is the world of journalism so silent about the
persecution of Julian Assange?
Noam Chomsky
You have to ask them. They shouldn't be. Maybe people are afraid or maybe they have other
reasons, but it's not a great tribute to journalism to see them back away from supporting
someone who has lived up to the highest ideals of the profession and is being savagely
persecuted for doing so. This is a mission that journalists should applaud. They should be on
the front lines of defending Assange and in fact, themselves against state power that is out of
control.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah, it seems to me, maybe it's because a small Internet outlet like WikiLeaks, what it
accomplishes, poses a great threat to institutions like The New York Times and The Washington
Post because they're not accomplishing much. But let me move on to
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