ASSANGE - MEDIA DISTORTION

ASSANGE MEDIA DISTORTION Agence France-Presse " ... international news agency headquartered in Paris. It is the oldest news agency in the world and one of the largest. It transmits news in French, English, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish & German." Not-for-profit co-operative. Source: Wikipedia - here. Other Agence France-Presse employs staff in over 160 countries around the world. >> So it's got 'embassies' all over the world? >> Editor graduate: Paris Institute of Political Studies -- study & research of contemporary political 'science'. Ooh, worked as an adviser to politician Laurent Fabius - media & culture - http://goo.gl/MRE1n7   / Fab is now Min Foreign Affairs Lebanon - Headline: Assange Extradition to U.S. 'Far-Fetched'  Swedish prosecutors seek to discredit #Assange - Political Prisoner @wikileaks – http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/148497-assange-extradition-to-u-s-far-fetched … >>> #FreeAssangeNow NSW, Australia - Headline: Assange Extradition to U.S. 'Far-Fetched' Mullumbimby paper picks up lame AFP discredit 'circular' > #Assange extradition to US ‘far-fetched’ > http://goo.gl/EXkVAh - @WikiLeaks http://www.echo.net.au/2014/09/assange-extradition-us-far-fetched/ #France - French ruling class entitled, arrogant & presumptuous? >> "French politicians are not used to being held to account by newspapers in the way British ones are." [DM] .. kinda, lol > French newspapers - weak & deferential / heavily subsidised by - thus beholden to - French state. Shackled by privacy laws! >> "As a result of all these factors, corruption in French politics is rife." [DM] - #FreeFrenchPress >> Corrupt & erring French politicians have no fear of the "poodle-like French newspapers" [DM] >> or the photo-journalists >> In #France political class essentially restrains the journalistic class — the two are often indistinguishable [DM] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2178982/Rampant-corruption-Mlud-Leveson-learn-looking-Frances-poodle-Press.html COMMENT Ecuador has granted Assange political asylum on solid grounds and the facts speak for themselves. This AFP 'circular', from the French puppet press, distorts the facts.