Assange is free. The toads are croaking
No sooner had the momentous news broken that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange had struck a deal with the United States, pleading guilty to its trumped-up charges in return for freedom, than the toads in the old corporate media started croaking. The spiteful nonentities who populate the pages of Murdoch's propaganda rags and the drivellers at the Financial Review were perhaps first off the mark in the chorus of croakers, complaining that Assange wasn't a "real journalist" (as if these gutless toadlets would know one if they saw one) and implying that he deserved his imprisonment and…