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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tonto who wrote (874)	3/6/2005 1:38:57 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 9838

Re: As I wrote, I would think otherwise about the journalists and their peabody dreams... Brave journalists are rare. One of my heroes is/was Gary Webb. He raised a huge storm of controversy with his incotrovertible expose of the C.I.A.'s complicity in creating the crack cocaine epidemic in the U.S. mega.nu:8080/ampp/webb.html Message 18878595 weeklywire.com tinyurl.com So, journalists pay attention to what happens to someone who tells inconvenient truths, as Gary Webb did. First, honest reporters are pilloried in fascist fraudulent media by editors at the NT Times, LA Times, Washington Post and other arbiters of which official lies are to be maintained as "national security(sic)" secrets. Then the San Jose Mercury News demoted Gary Webb. Finally, he was either murdered or committed suicide in a mysterious fashion. So, with a future like that available to a brave journalist who would "speak truth to power", how many people do you think would have the courage? Especially when six-figure incomes are available to those who willingly prostitute themselves.... *** Re: It just seems very strange that people have walked away from a story of that magnitude. Not to me. Brave journalism is about as absurd an oxymoron as military intelligence today.