Steve Croft’s interview of Julian Assange is full of barely veiled innuendo. Crofts acts as a self-appointed judge of Assange’s actions. This is not an unbiased interview. It is a low point for the quality of news reporting at CBS News. Faced with Assange’s defense of acting in the best tradition of American values, Crofts acts like surprised or simply ignores the challenge he himself invoked by accusation.
This is a good reflection of a increasingly common American persona, a simpleton unable to think critically about its own values and their relation to the world. Are we really to suspend our faith in freedom of speech and the value of whistle-blowers and civility simply because someone is embarrasingly exposing hypocrisy in the actions of our leaders?