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Commentary: Questions media should ask about Julian Assange, WikiLeaks

I’m badly out of step with my media brethren, since I find the fate of WikiLeaks and its besieged founder, Julian Assange, a truly compelling story. Other media don't agree. The pressure on Assange, who has sought sanctuary in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, is fringe stuff, a quirky faceoff involving a spectral, white-haired weirdo whom journalists disdain who spilled secrets that annoyed officialdom and that U.S. media mostly ignored anyway. » read more

WikiLeaks founder Assange remains at Ecuador embassy in England

Ecuador and England are facing off over the fate of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange, after the controversial free-speech advocate was granted political asylum in the Andean nation but remains trapped in the country’s London embassy. » read more