A determined American journalist, let’s call her Gillian, is sleuthing away at a story about India’s nuclear weapons program.
Though Gillian is based in London, when she finally gets to publish her story, the Indian government is bent on revenge.
Is Washington going to stand idly by and meekly accept the possibility of an American journalist languishing in an Indian jail?
The clue is in the inverted commas around “journalist.” To my mind, Julian Assange is in some ways recognizably a journalist.
However, to many journalists Assange is not a proper “journalist,” and they can’t really see what his fate has to do with theirs.
Persons:
Alan Rusbridger, Read, let’s, Gillian, Alan Rusbridger Simone Padovani, meekly, Julian, He’s, ”, —, there’s, Julian Assange, Assange, Stephanie Lecocq, Hillary Clinton, Clinton, El País, Der Spiegel —, Chelsea Manning, Sarah Ellison, ” Clinton, Manning, Barack Obama’s, Iraq —, ’, It’s, John Podesta, Richard Nixon, Daniel Ellsberg —, Edward Snowden, Daniel Ellsberg, Wally Fong, Anthony Albanese, Joe Biden
Organizations:
Prospect Magazine, CNN, Guardian, WikiLeaks, Court, la Republique, Reuters, New York Times, US Army, Apache, US, Washington Post, The New York Times, Pentagon, Australian
Locations:
American, London, Delhi, Washington, la, Paris, Kenya, Iran, El, Le, Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, Los Angeles