[lbo-talk] Davies v Assange

[James Heartfield]

Watching Nick Davies' programme about wikileaks on UK's channel 4 tonight, 
and three times now have heard a man who looks like Edna Everage (David 
Leigh) and another who looks like an orange left under a sun lamp (Nick 
Davies) protest that Julian Assange 'was very weird'. Evidence to the 
Guardian journalists of just how weird Assange was included the damning 
allegation that he stayed up late on his laptop, and wore a leather jacket. 
It probably never occurred to these two that they would have looked pretty 
weird to anyone under fifty, who had not been to a private school 
(Nottingham High School - Leigh), Oxford University (Davies) or Cambridge U 
(Leigh).

Yet more shocking to the Guardian journalists was that Assange wanted to 
share his story with other newspapers and TV stations undermining their 
'agreement'  over (meaning their 'ownership' of) the story, from which 
Davies drew the conclusion that the Australian was 'the most dishonest 
person he had ever met'. 'The most dishonest person' this lead journalist on 
a national newspaper 'had ever met'? Davies never met Tony Blair, or David 
Cameron? Or perhaps he thought that they were honest next to Julian Assange?