Criminalizing Journalistic Activity

"Those attacking Assange are criminalizing journalistic activity." ---Mark Stephens.

Yes: indeed. The shame of it is that many in the mass media in the developed world, including the United States are making themselves active accomplices in the criminalization of normal journalistic activity. There seems to be this belief that places like the United States are beyond good and evil, when it comes to journalistic activities that their governments do not like.

Imagine, the kinds of mass media campaigns journalists and writers in the United States and other developed countries in Europe would be waging against the Iranian government, if it charged an Iranian journalist with terrorism, for releasing secret Iranian documents on its nuclear program to the New York Times, the London Times and to Google.

I thank you.

Fubara David-West.