
The famous truth-bearing Julian Assange made his debut with his current show on the RT television company, the former Russia Today. The editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan promised that the first guest of the program will be a person, "because of which, I will not be surprised, if particularly rabid hawks, who respect freedom of speech, will demand to close us."
Without a doubt, it was to such a reaction that the creators of the program expected, deliberately provoked it. On the eve of the premiere of RT showed an interview with Assange, in which the creator of WikiLeaks was looking forward to the attack: "Let's imagine an obvious version of criticism. Here he is, Julian Assange, an enemy combatant, a traitor, in bed with the Kremlin, interviewing terrible radicals from around the world."
That is how tritely reacted to the news of the cooperation of Assange with RT oligarch and media-Magnat Alexander Lebedev, who placed an angry diary on Twitter: “It’s ashamed, Mr. Assange! It is difficult to imagine a more miserable finale for the“ world order overthrust ”than the position of an employee on the Russia Today controlled state.
No, we will not give him such a gift. The course is calculated accurately. Assange and Simonyan can be congratulated on the magnificent PR. The first interlocutor of Assange was the leader of Hizballa Hassan Nasellla. If now the authorities of Great Britain, where it is forbidden to publish an interview with terrorists, will present Assange with any complaints, the shares of its enterprises will only jump in price.
To the first question of Assange: "How do you see the future of Israel and Palestine? What will you consider your victory? If you win this victory, are you adding a weapon?" - Sheikh Serallah replied that Israel is an illegal state created in the occupied territories. On these lands, one state should be created - Palestinian. This, according to Nasrolla, is the only possible solution.
The interviewer was fully satisfied with this answer.
Both Simonyan and Assange are carefully emphasized: it is not in the state of RT - he himself is the producer of his show. RT he sells a finished product. Why did he grant the right to an exclusive display of the television company that the Russian government finances, what is he well aware of? According to Assange, the choice was only between RT and al-Jazira, but al-Jazira lost to RT in terms of the number of audience in the United States. Only BBC can compete with RT in this indicator, but it is hostile to the WikiLeaks project, and therefore was not considered as a possible partner.
But WikiLeaks did not spare the Kremlin in his exposures - why did Assange sign a contract with pro -Kremlin television? The newly -minted showman answers this question as follows: "Our main object of confrontation is the West. RT - our natural partner." In addition, he was provided with complete freedom of speech, while in the largest western press bodies, such as the New York Times, Guardian or BBC, self -censorship directed against the values they proclaimed - "not our values, but their own."
I don’t know how Assange himself, and I personally read Wikileaks in the New York Times and Guardian, and the second of these newspapers posted a special interface on its website, with the help of which it is very convenient to look for the necessary materials on keywords, dates or countries.
Assange says that he sent invitations to an interview with "almost all significant figures" of the Russian opposition, but they were too busy. Assange is not averse to talking with Khodorkovsky, but he, unfortunately, is in prison and therefore are not available. He is going to invite members of the Russian government on the air - with their availability, he must not have problems.
Assange’s television project may come to an end at any moment as soon as the British Supreme Court decides to deport him to Sweden, where he was charged with sexual crimes. Assange, freed from custody on bail, waits under house arrest, with an electronic bracelet on his leg, which he demonstrated in the screensaver to his program.
Of course, it is difficult to take Assange's truth seriously, after he contacted the Rupor of Frank Kremlin propaganda. But was it not noticeable from the very beginning that WikiLeaks was not going to overthrow and was not going that his goal was only to earn scandalous glory to his creator? Partnership with RT is a logical result of a career of formidable exposure. We have already seen such people. The Russian authorities are able to tame them perfectly. As the heroine of the story of Babel said, "to serve in the rooms - to spell the hem."