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http://www.firstpost.com/politics/from-assange-to-kejriwal-understanding-media-hostility-552129.html

There was a time, not long ago, when Arvind 
Kejriwal<http://www.firstpost.com/topic/person/arvind-kejriwal-profile-91618.html>was
 
being billed as the ‘Julian 
Assange<http://www.firstpost.com/topic/person/julian-assange-profile-82735.html>
 of 
India’. Perhaps this was born of the sense that Kejriwal’s record of 
launching high-decibel ‘exposes’ of alleged corruption, which were lapped 
up by the media, echoed 
Assange<http://www.firstpost.com/topic/person/julian-assange-profile-82735.html>’s
 
periodic 
WikiLeaks<http://www.firstpost.com/topic/organization/wikileaks-profile-78335.html>
 exposes 
of US cables that chronicled in merciless detail the diplomats’ 
observations on the ways of the world, and the shadowy side to American and 
foreign governments’ dealings.

Today, however, for all their vastly different agendas, approaches and life 
circumstances, 
Assange<http://www.firstpost.com/topic/person/julian-assange-profile-82735.html>
 and 
Kejriwal are united by other common strands: they have both becomes targets 
of political vendetta; and, somewhat paradoxically, they have both become 
victims of a creeping ‘expose fatigue’. By another curious coincidence, 
although both Kejriwal and Assange still retain enormous goodwill among 
large sections of the people, their relationship with the media, which once 
soared on the strength of symbiosis, have become strained, even borderline 
hostile.

The hostility of the media is doubly curious because at one point the media 
fed off Assange’s scoops and Kejriwal’s recycled exposes, which worked to 
amplify the exposes and simultaneously profited from the relationship. The 
media also ostensibly shares Assange’s and Kejriwal’s commitment to 
transparency and freedom of information — and exposure of governmental 
wrongdoing; which is why their lack of sympathy for their causes is 
striking.

Today, Kejriwal has reinvented himself as a politician has floated his own 
party — and operates openly. In that sense, he is considerably better off 
than Assange, who has for six months now remains holed up in the Ecuadorian 
embassy in London, where he has sought refuge to escape likely arrest (on 
rape charges in Sweden) and possible extradition to Sweden, and then on to 
the US (where he is wanted on rather more serious charges of espionage).

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