what an insulting hit piece. Journalistic ethics? Based on the context here, that just means "cooperates with the government to hide information"

One of the biggest reasons America pulled out of the vietnam war was americans losing their taste for blood when seeing the violence up close thanks to the hard working journalists of the era. For that reason, the government now restricts what journalists can report.

Assange isn't a perfect person but he was doing real journalism nonetheless. Keeping governments accountable