Guardian engaged in ‘journalistic fraud’ in Assange interview rewrite – Greenwald — RT News
Journalist Glenn Greenwald has accused his former employer, The Guardian, of falsifying the phrases of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a report in regards to the interview he gave to La Repubblica.
Assange spoke to the Italian newspaper’s correspondent Stefania Maurizi final week when she visited him within the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. The interview was in English and a transcript of it’s obtainable on La Repubblica’s web site.
The Guardian’s report on the interview was printed Saturday and comprises two false statements about what Assange instructed the Italian newspaper, Greenwald says in a damning piece on The Intercept.
The headline stated Assange “provides guarded reward” to Donald Trump, whereas contained in the article itself The Guardian cited the WikiLeaks founder as claiming that “there was no want for WikiLeaks to undertake a whistleblowing function in Russia due to the open and aggressive debate.”
Here’s the Italian journalist whose interview with Assange was blatantly distorted by the Guardian, a false abstract which unfold in all places: t.co/OGx7isQbpD
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 28, 2016
Neither assertion precisely represented what Assange truly stated within the interview, Greenwald says. His touch upon Trump stated that the US president-elect was no “DC insider” and was bringing in a “new patronage construction” that will weaken the one already in place in Washington.
The article additionally claimed that Assange “has lengthy had a detailed relationship with the Putin regime.” The Guardian later edited the story to delete this sentence, in addition to the declare about “no want” for WikiLeaks to function in Russia.
In the unique interview, Assange acknowledged that, in Russia, WikiLeaks must compete with opposition blogs and media, which have the benefit of being printed within the native Russian language, and could be considered as overseas, it being a Western venture. He added that WikiLeaks, regardless of its deal with the Western world, has nonetheless printed 800,000 paperwork referencing Russia or President Vladimir Putin.
Meanwhile, the journalist who interviewed Assange for La Repubblica, Stefania Maurizi, has tweeted that she was “utterly livid about how my interview with Julian #Assange has been distorted and [in]strumentalised.”
