This is an interesting Wall Street Journal article about the commodification of Julian Assange/ WikiLeaks. Assange has been turned into an icon for the preservation of free speech, and now you can wear him on your t-shirt, and can even have "Dinner with Julian"!
We keep talking about the media being newspapers and television etc, but I think that the media, or form of communication in this case, also includes the websites, t-shirts, umbrellas and bags that are creating an entire WikiLeaks culture.
Assange, through the help of these media outlets, has become a celebrity.
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