Re: What's nice about the article is the vivid description of how media works from an honest insider
This past year a friend and I attempted to inundate the inbox of a mutual acquaintance, who happened to be the President of the American Society of Professional Journalists with a series of scintillating investigative reports from the likes of Truthout, Buzzflash, Counterpunch, Common Dreams, etc.
We sent dozens of these hot leads for good investigative journalism.
We got one consistent reaction. Each and every useful story we sent was disregarded. None were convenient to the powers that be.
What did this journalist/whore publish in lieu of the truth? A series of sex-soaked gossip columns about a State Governor and a failed two-year old affair he'd had with a lobbyist. That is the level of whoring we've sunk to in this world. Journalism is dead, except for the rare instance of a really brave soul like Greg Palast. His latest salvo is rocking some particularly pretentious boats:
gregpalast.com
Greg Palast: Beat the Press
Saturday, March 1, 2003
Interview by Bruce David
For those of us who've long suspected that our democracy is up for sale to the highest bidder, award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast has uncovered disturbing evidence confirming as much. Palast's exposés of the theft of the 2000 election, the financial ties between the Bush and the Bin Laden families, and how these connections kept the FBI from perhaps preventing the horrific events of 9/11 have thrown fear into the hearts of media pundits. There has been a near-complete news blackout of the explosive findings documented in Palast's book, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. First released in England, where he reports for the BBC and The Guardian, Palast's collection of writings is finally being published in America by Penguin/Plume books with 40% new material. In (this)interview, the author discloses the truth on high crimes in high places that the mainstream media is afraid to touch. |
