Glenn Greenwald had many things to say about the Assange-Nasrallah interview in his article, "Attacks on RT and Assange reveal much about the critics." Here is an excerpt:
The real cause of American media hostility toward RT is the same as what causes it to hate Assange: the reporting it does reflects poorly on the U.S. Government, the ultimate sin in the eyes of our “adversarial” press corps. A bitter little rant about RT and Assange today in The Guardian from Luke Harding — one which Adomanis demolishes here — unveils the real reason for the hostility toward that network. On RT, Harding frets, “The west, and America in particular, is depicted as crime-ridden, failing, and in thrall to big business and evil elites.” Oh, perish the thought.Also, read Kevin Gosztola's article, "About Julian Assange's New Revolutionary Television Show." He writes:
Assange does not do as many US pundits often do during their television shows. He refrains from launching into monologues to explain his views on the subject or the subject matter of the interview. Instead, the episode is purely Assange interviewing Nasrallah for nearly a half hour. It is an exemplary form of journalism, one that a number of American journalists would fear engaging in because they might end up being repeatedly stopped at US airports in the aftermath or might be investigated for ties to terrorism.There are other commentaries about the significance of the interview and of Assange's new show. But these two by Greenwald and Gosztola are the best ones.
I'll probably write a lengthier article about the impact of this interview on the dialogue between East and West. It is a good sign for the world that a prominent individual from the West and a prominent individual from the East are talking about war and peace in a reasonable and fair manner, and criticizing USraeli war propaganda.
