LET’S ALL ARGUE ABOUT JULIAN ASSANGE’S TV SHOW
So: It’s the moral tussle over the media ambitions of the internet rebel that everyone’s talking about – but is it really wise for Julian Assange to turn away from his grubby laptop screen and forge a new career as a “renegade” chat show host on a state-controlled Russian TV channel? Who would his guests be? What would they talk about? Has he even got the charisma to pull it off? I think it’s high-time we heard both sides of this argument.
JULIAN ASSANGE IS A RENEGADE MASTER, A DEFAULT DAMAGER, POWER TO THE PEOPLE, WITH THE ILL BEHAVIOUR
Julian Assange is a hero. He’s a martyr, in fact. A heroic martyr. He likes to talk about himself in the third person. He enjoys hanging out with his friends. He likes movies, books and video games. But the powers that be won’t be happy until he has been put away forever. But screw the powers that be. They can’t have me. These little men in their stuffy offices will never understand what it is to be truly great. With their limited lives, of pushing their pens around – pens! – in the era of the information superhighway! These dinosaurs have never woken up to the fact that the world has changed. That we are now living in a world of cyber-connected netizens, all bowing before the new Mammon: information.
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