Media Lens: Russell Brand’s ‘Revolution’ – Part 2, The Backlash
12 November 2014 — Media Lens
From Messiah To Monty Python
If Julian Assange was initially perceived by many as a controversial but respected, even heroic, figure challenging power, the corporate media worked hard to change that perception in the summer of 2012. After Assange requested political asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, the faux-feminists and corporate leftists of the ‘quality’ liberal press waged war on his reputation.
spanning US occupation of Iraq, as well as battle plans for waging a covert war against Iran now well under way.

