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"I will state firmly and resolutely that my account has been truthful. I do not claim it has been impartial."

I believe Craig Murray's account because

1. He could be called out at any time for any fabrication

2. There is no, literally zero, mainstream news sites reporting this trial in any depth whatsoever.

The Guardian. Happy to break his orginal news and happy also to bow to the UK Govt in keeping pretty much silent on trial. Yes, they have mentioned it is happening, but they say little else.

My faith in UK journalism is zero. They are servants of the Govt.

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Depends what one means by "mainstream." RT and Sputnik do a little coverage.

Also not mainstream, TJDS and Chris Hedges cover it.

Furthermore, the growing problems of conspiracy theory cults is partially due to incompetent leadership and lack of journalistic integrity by those at global microphones leading to a dissolution of trust in authorities. The obvious solution to better journalism isn't an alternate reality, but by higher-integrity journalism that is sustainable and independent on the whims of mercurial "family products" executives with undue influence to have anchors fired. And that can had only by outlawing corporate, ad-supported journalism that creates evil, corrupt business model-reinforcing dark patterns and replace them with grant- and subscriber-based journalism.

Also, government-supported news, like BBC, RT, and Sputnik, is a terrible idea because it creates the appearance of a conflict-of-interest in holding government accountable. The Fourth Estate must be separate and independent.

"RT and Sputnik do a little coverage."

Oh come on - Putin funded sources.

"And that can had only by outlawing corporate, ad-supported journalism "

PUTIN.

Good grief.

Time HN sorted out the Putin trolls.

Please don't go into flamewar like this. It just makes everything worse.

Also, insinuations of trollage and shillage and foreign-agentage are against the site guidelines. If you don't have evidence, you shouldn't be posting this, and if you do have evidence, you should be letting us know so we can investigate. Someone having a different view than you on some divisive topic does not count as evidence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I watch/read RT just like I do BBC, PressTV, telesur and US media like NYTimes and so on. They’re often reporting exactly the same thing, from the same angle even.

You sound like the troll

I wish the original comment to which I replied could show the edit.

I'm no troll, just a very annoyed reader - and UK citizen - who sees The Guardian as proclaiming how utterly fantastic they are while also doing exactly what the Powers That Be want them to say.

The Guardian are ..... words fail me, but truthful and believable are not on that list.

And troll? Nope.

The reason for the lack of reporting in the UK media is the reporting restrictions on criminal cases. they have been spanked repeatedly for coverage leading to jury prejudice and so basically blanket ban any coverage of any ongoing criminal case for the most part. Rules are here https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/reportin...

I don't have a credible opinion about whether that's right but that's the reason.

The extradition hearing is an administrative matter, not a criminal one. Julian Assange isn't being prosecuted in this matter, the case is simply establishing whether he can be extradited in accordance with the Extradition Act 2003 or not.

Therefore, reporting restrictions do not appear to apply here.

Aah interesting. This source claims that reporting restrictions were requested by Assange's team to protect the identity of his partner back in April, but that seems somewhat moot now. I don't know - there may well be a restriction because it does seem strange how little reporting there has been.

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252481299/Judge-refuses-...

For people who don't know the UK, Computer Weekly is an IT-specific publication but has some form in investigative journalism in topics that are at least tangentially tech-related, notably in one case vindicating helicopter pilots who were blamed in a fatal crash that was most likely caused by software.

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