The fact that none of the Murdochs are sitting in gaol cells in the U.K. - while Julian Assange is under house arrest and Bradley Manning rots in a U.S. miltitary prison on suspicion - speaks volumes about the state of justice in the world.- Glenn D.
It's a valid point. Julian Assange has been charged with supplied information that was obtained illegitimately, and yet News Corporation does it via mass phone-hacking and their directors don't get any punishment (as of yet) at all.
What's the difference? The Murdochs have money and power. They have so much influence in the media that they can write a news story, true or not, about a politician or public figure and the public will believe it. The power is right there to destroy a politician's career or a celebrity's good standing in the community. The fact that James resigned right at the time of the handing down of a report into the scandalous news collection practices at "News of the World" reeks of suspicion.
All Assange has done is create a conduit for leaked documents - he gets them submitted to his website. He doesn't solicit them or obtain them through illegal channels - people in possession of this information volunteer it to Wikileaks. How the leakers got hold of it is another story, and that's their cross to bear, not Julian's. News International has been the instigator of the illegal access to information and then publishes it - vastly different in behaviour to the Wikileaks problem.
The world needs change...and fast.
