Julian Assange Given Press Freedom Award

[cal04]

Source: CBS News

Romanian News Site Honors WikiLeaks Founder for Exposing Some Governments' "Duplicitous Behavior"

A Romanian online publication known for its editorial independence is honoring Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for his service to press freedom, which it warns is under threat in Eastern Europe.

Cotidianul.ro said Saturday Assange was given the "Free Dacia" award for exposing the "duplicitous behavior of some democratic countries."

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Cotidianul.ro said press freedom remains fragile in Eastern Europe, where a Hungarian media law allows for journalists to be taken to court and fined of up to $1 million (€760,000) for reports considered to be unbalanced.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/01/world/main7203524.shtml

[Cleita]

1. I hope he keeps getting awards and being named

as person of the year and any other such honors. It will make it that much harder to take him down.

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. Agreed. Not to date myself, but the whole world's watching.

The gov't will pursue a strategy... probably as yet undetermined... that takes this fact into account.

[struggle4progress]

30. Is this the same Julian Assange who is interprets the fact, that the first amendment of the US

Constitution applies to the states, as representing a further concentration of power?

.... after World War II, during World War II, the federal government of the United States started sucking the resources to the center, and the power of states started to diminish. Interestingly, the First Amendment started overriding states' laws around that time, which I see as a function of increasing central power in the United States ...
TIME's Julian Assange Interview: Full Transcript/Audio
Wednesday, Dec. 01, 2010
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2034040-2,00.html

[digitaln3rd]

2. Douchebag gets award from unknown online newspaper.

Film at 11.

[Warren Stupidity]

13. tell us how you really feel about it.

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[grahamhgreen]

17. Really? Name calling?

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

24. Assange is a hero. Exposing corruption, lies and murder is a heroic deed.

Defending liars and lies is not.

[Supply Side Jesus]

29. got freep?

:dunce:

[Amonester]

44. Yeah, eh! "Film at 11!111..

That freeload is rather obvious. :toast:

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x88100

:evilgrin:

[PatrynXX]

33. O_O

kinda odd I had a small argument with my normally left wing uncle, he didn't see any problem with the leaks, but he won't hear anything about the guy because of the false rape accusations. as in he really believes they were raped. Thats pretty much debunked about 4 ways from Stalin. But it caught me off guard. However I'd rather that than a name caller on du with nothing to back up his statement. :(

[fascisthunter]

39. it'll be ok...

here:

[arikara]

41. Hark

I hear a mosquito buzzing around.

[rAVES]

42. How sad for you.

[backtomn]

4. From a "Romanian online publication" ???

What the hell is that supposed to mean. Romania.....bastion of press freedom?? Give me an f-ing break.

If he gets an award from "rapist times" then I hope this goes away. If not, then we should hope for awards that ACTUALLY mean something.

Are we really going to celebrate THIS ??? !!! Yikes.

[treestar]

8. Confusing it with freedom of the press is the ultimate in ignorance

We did not have freedom of the press before wikileaks. :rofl:

[EFerrari]

11. Because we all know what the American press looked like before wikileaks!

[Nostradammit]

15. No, it doesn't come close to the standard you've already set, "treestar."

[liberation]

43. Ah, yes the traditional American overman argument laughing at the foreign untermensch

The pinnacle of arguments which are "not" implicitly racist and ignorant at all. LOL

[EFerrari]

10. So, it doesn't mean something unless Disney, GE or Verizon says so?

Yikes.

[sabrina 1]

25. Wikileaks HAS received other awards, but I think this one

has far more significance than some of the more 'popular' awards we are familiar with. No on knows better the value of a free press than those who have been deprived of it.

Interesting that you would denigrate the efforts of these people who are all too familiar with what it means to not be able to speak out against government wrong-doing.

My heart goes out to them and I find it appalling that anyone in this country would attempt to minimize their efforts to bring freedom to all the people of the world, simply because they do not have a big name behind them or they don't have lots of money.

These are the kinds of people who throughout history, actually changed the world for the better. And I have a feeling that getting this award from them will mean as much, if not more to Julian Assange than any of the more prestigious awards he and/or Wikileaks have received so far.

[No Elephants]

26. It's not run by the Roumanian government, ffs.

[JBoy]

5. Not surprising, that Romanians would recognize what a free press actually looks like.

[lonestarnot]

40. Ironic isn't it.

[NorthCarolina]

6. Excellent!

I love seeing conservative heads explode on DU. Good thread :popcorn:

[SoapBox]

7. Fabulous!

...can you just hear the RushThug/T.HaterBagger/FoxNooseChannel types, heads exploding?

LOL

Julian...I luvs ya man!

[AsahinaKimi]

9. I am sure the right wing

will try to find ways to spin this..and I am sure Palin will no doubt say Romanians are Communists and are just like the Russians..blah blah blah. I am happy he got this award, but there are too many in our country would rather see him hung out to dry or just hung.

[Mr Generic Other]

12. hung out to dry

or just hanged.

[tavalon]

23. LOL

Thank you. That is a common mistake, though the phrase isn't used much. Now, lose versus loose, aargh!!!

[No Elephants]

27. Speak for yourself. Some folks wouldn't mind seeing him hung.

[tomm2thumbs]

19. ironically, a lot of right wingers i know believe he did a good thing - but

some of this stems from the fact that they consider this a thorn in Obama's side, not 'their' president's problem. But I was actually surprised to hear they thought the information that was released should be known by the public. Go figure.

[ooglymoogly]

20. We are already seeing how the reich wing will spin this

right here on this OP

[fascisthunter]

38. .

[fascisthunter]

37. they are trying to marginalize him before he releases more info

it's the only way they can try to dissuade readers from reading and paying attention to him.

[Uncle Joe]

16. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, cal.

[Still a Democrat]

18. Cotidianul.ro ?

Has anyone here ever heard of it?

[No Elephants]

28. At a minimum, everyone who read the OP has, but its degree of fame is beside the point.

[sofa king]

21. * Not redeemable for actual freedom.

[DeSwiss]

22. K&R n/t

[Enthusiast]

31. K&R

"duplicitous"

Lots of that going around these days, even on the DU.

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[fascisthunter]

36. if he was a joke we wouldn't see the effort to marginalize him

ha ha

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[Kingofalldems]

46. Interesting and very familiar.

[disndat]

34. Good, good, good!

Assange is going to save the world! Wikileak is the coup d'etat of the century.

[fascisthunter]

35. AWESOME!

by the way... this isn't a left vs right issue.