Attacks on RT and Assange reveal much about the critics - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

``Assange developed an alternative template to the corporate media -- one that was far more independent of, and adversarial to, government power -- and, in the process, produced more newsworthy scoops than all of them combined. As NYU Journalism Professor Jay Rosen once put it about WikiLeaks: "The Watchdog Press Died; We Have This Instead." The mavens of that dead watchdog press then decided that they hated Assange and devoted themselves to demonizing and destroying him. That behavior makes someone a "nut job," but it isn't Assange. ''