By Dady Chery
Haiti Chery

Julian Assange talks about truth. But, like Colin Powell, he should also know that the timing of truth matters.

As Julian Assange noted in his speech at Trafalguar Square on Saturday, many western journalists are accomplices in war. Endless war, in fact. Beneath this lies a culture of total obedience to authority.

Those who are embedded are an obvious case, but there are varying levels of obedience. For example, many well-established journalists consider it their job to report what their country’s authorities say without verifying or challenging the official word. Some, for example, have confessed in hindsight that they are ashamed they had not reported the truth about the bogus weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq. Yet all still work as professional journalists. Where is the ostracism?

As for the government spokespeople: even after their lies are exposed, they can absolve themselves of their sins, sell many copies of their books, and reinvent themselves. Colin Powell, for example, is suddenly heroic for uttering a brief mea culpa about the nonexistent WMDs: a lie that caused hundreds of thousands of deaths.

Julian Assange is treated as a hero by liberal leftists who are woefully short of heroes, but his kind of journalism is hardly exemplary. The most important source of the leaks, U.S. intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, remains in prison while Assange is free to engage in sex scandals.
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Journalism in hindsight, like the sort done by Wikileaks, has some serious shortcomings. The most tangible benefit to be gained from learning what really happened 5-15 years ago is as ammunition for lawyers representing victims of war and torture. The rest is education and liberal coffee-table conversation. This kind of journalism presents the ravages of war as a fait accompli. Assange talks about truth. But, like Colin Powell, he should also know that the timing of truth matters.

Exposure of past atrocities can do little about them, whereas exposure of ongoing atrocities can, in principle, help to end them. So much is going on right now — like the wars being waged on poor people all over the world by the growing legions ofso-called U.N. peacekeepers. Current coverage of these atrocities is shameful at best.

All over the world, little-known journalists do their jobs exceedingly well: they do their small stories, and after they do these stories, they do one, two, or even three follow ups to examine how their story changed things.

Some of the best journalists covering wars, especially those who get killed in surprising numbers, are citizens of the invaded countries. These little-known non-western journalists realize very well what’s at stake, but they go out and do a bang up job anyway. They are hardly ever celebrated.

Non-western journalists are usually the only ones who ever show the bravery of their own people. For an example, see this.  Even the best western war journalism presents the invaded people as victims. The images of destroyed villages, inconsolable mothers, and funeral processions have become cliches. Though this is motivated by sympathy, it is unhelpful. Yes, people are confronted with overwhelming force and many are victimized. It is important to show that there are also many who face the onslaught with remarkable bravery, resistance, and heart.