It's sad that a journalist being tortured and treated so inhumanely isn't getting better coverage by his journalist peers
Letting people upload troves of information, and just dumping them to the public without going through and vetting them, isn't journalism in my book. He's a journalist in the same sense that a data breach dumped on pastebin is a news article.
The fact that some journalists are so vehement against Assange imho proves that he s a journalist. People always shoot the messenger
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/journalist 1.b: a writer who aims at a mass audience
Julian Assange: Technically a journalist.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-17/is-jul...
I don't think it's a matter of explanation anymore. Whether Assange is a journalist depends on political affiliations. It's a shame that the trump election had to end up throwing out the baby with the bathwater by discrediting wikileaks. This kind of thing usually has unintented, bad consequences.
Or, perhaps they have settled. Compromise?
One reason is it's more difficult to make a living if you're fired (not many press jobs anymore, whether online or print), and more easy to be branded for life as unwelcome.
As for going at it on your own, e.g. as a vlogger/journalist, if you get too much on the establishment's nerves it's very easy to deplatform you, not just from e.g. youtube, but even from payment platforms for donations...
2) He's not being tortured.
3) It's entirely reasonable that a known and proven flight risk will be held without bail when facing criminal charges.
2) He's being tortured
3) I wasn't addressing this