Peter Oborne’s recent article exposes some of the worst contradictions.
Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, used World Press Freedom Day to express his support for free speech, but has remained silent about persecution of reporters in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile Raab’s cabinet colleague Oliver Dowden sent the BBC a menacing letter complaining about the Panorama documentary of 27 April that exposed shortages of PPE and expressed legitimate concern about Covid-19 deaths among health workers.
But nothing shows the emptiness of Raab’s claims more than the government’s treatment of Julian Assange, whose real crime is to have practiced journalism, by shining a light on the way the world truly works.
Equally hypocritical are the British newspaper barons. While they endlessly defend themselves against any regulation that would limit their ability to peddle misinformation and pry on peoples’ private lives, they look the other way when it comes to Julian Assange.
Read Peter Oborne’s article here