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by gamblor956 2095 days ago
More than a dozen news articles for each day of the hearing by the major newspapers is more than enough coverage.

Assange's extradition hearing isn't relevant to most people, and quite frankly it doesn't deserve or need to be covered outside of the major papers.

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It is relevant if you are against systematic extrajudicial murder and illegal spying or torture, and think the rule of law is worth following.

But if you aren't, then yeah, not relevant.

If you believe in the rule of law, there is substantial evidence that assange broke the laws of multiple countries, so you may just as easily be on the other side of this debate.
If you believe in the rule of law you would want the potential war crimes investigated long before you would imprison the journalist that exposed them.