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To: Suma who wrote (58300)	4/9/2008 9:54:44 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 543925

In Praise of Reporting Reality—And The Truth By Bill Moyers Terrific piece, ML. And John Henry Faulk was among the very, very best. Legendary. But I was under the impression that Seymour Hersh was the first to write about My Lai; not Ron Ridenhour. Hmmmm.

To: Suma who wrote (58300)	4/10/2008 12:48:00 PM
From: KonKilo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543925

Thanks, Suma, for posting that wonderful essay by Moyers. He is one of my heroes. Some of my favorite lines from it: The job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is almost as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place. --- We journalists are of course obliged to cover the news, but our deeper mission is to uncover the news that powerful people would prefer to keep hidden. --- In the buildup to the invasion of Iraq we were reminded of what the late great reporter A.J. Liebling meant when he said the press is “the weak slat under the bed of democracy.” The slat broke after the invasion and some strange bedfellows fell to the floor: establishment journalists, neo-con polemicists, beltway pundits, right-wing warmongers flying the skull and bones of the “balanced and fair brigade,” administration flacks whose classified leaks were manufactured lies—all romping on the same mattress in the foreplay to disaster. --- But I also tell them there is something more important than journalism, and that is the truth. They aren’t necessarily one and the same because the truth is often obscured in the news.