Re:The Assange case is collapsing but it remains a travesty ...
by freeflight on Sunday July 25, 2021 @11:08PM
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Not that surprising. The German mainstream news landscape is dominated by transatlantic interests.
Pretty much all German politicians, and journalists, of "relevance" are members in some pro-US NGO [0] or another, often even several of them.
Der Spiegel used to be one of thew few wider reaching left-leaning exceptions, they even published Snowden's first interview internationally back in 2013.
But over the years they went trough a slow transformation; They've become noticeably less critical of the US, completely ignoring any further developments around Snowden or Assagne, while ramping up on anti-Russian news.
Why is nobody there reaching out to people like Nils Melzer, as Swiss Republik.ch did? [1]
If Der Spiegel would have published something like that, it would have reached a far wider audience, could maybe even made some actual waves.
Pretty much all German politicians, and journalists, of "relevance" are members in some pro-US NGO [0] or another, often even several of them.
Der Spiegel used to be one of thew few wider reaching left-leaning exceptions, they even published Snowden's first interview internationally back in 2013.
But over the years they went trough a slow transformation; They've become noticeably less critical of the US, completely ignoring any further developments around Snowden or Assagne, while ramping up on anti-Russian news.
Why is nobody there reaching out to people like Nils Melzer, as Swiss Republik.ch did? [1]
If Der Spiegel would have published something like that, it would have reached a far wider audience, could maybe even made some actual waves.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantik-Br%C3%BCcke
[1] https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikilea...