Claire Bernish – As Julian Assange slams corporate media for publishing “weaponized text”, MSNBC anchor admits on-air that “our job” is to “control exactly what people think.”

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange called “very, very, very inaccurate” corporate presstitutes “opportunistic snipers” in an interview last weekend, accusing newspapers of printing “weaponized text.”  And the outspoken publisher isn’t at all dissatisfied with the current “fake news” propaganda campaign. As Assange explained to Australian comedian Chas Licciardello, “WikiLeaks is very happy that there is a narrative about fake news out there because we have a perfect record of having never got it wrong in terms of authentications.”

While the corporate press continues misrepresenting information, quoting unnamed and thus unverifiable sources, and even printing flagrant fabrications, Wikileaks indeed maintains an unparalleled streak of publishing authentic and undoctored data — despite harsh criticism from the establishment — thus eliminating all bias or unintended insertion of opinion.

“When the narrative of fake news came out and was then taken off effectively by the neo-liberal press and pushed around,” Assange elaborated. “I could see exactly where that was going. I was rather happy about it.”

The outspoken publisher’s opinion on so-called fake news emphasizes the disastrous failings of a mainstream media hell bent on propping up its own establishment agenda, regardless of which political affiliation a given outlet claims. Noted Assange,

“What is special about WikiLeaks is that it’s not just another damn story. It’s not just another damn journalist putting their damn byline, advertising themselves and their position on another damn story.”

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