Beltway Culture, Checks on Journalists & Secrecy Obligations

Establishment journalists have a very significant impact on the world. They enthusiastically believe that to be true when it comes time to building their egos and establishing their own importance, but they instantly and emphatically deny it when it comes time to holding them accountable for what they do (don't you have anything better to do than criticize the media?). Their influence, thankfully, has eroded and continues to erode by the minute, but it's ... Full Story »

Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via Jay Rosen, Ana Marie Cox, Glenn Greenwald

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Deborah Plummer
4.8
by Deborah Plummer - Sep. 2, 2009

I started to hear/read about Mr. Greenwald since AirAmerica began/March 2004 and have learned so much from him. He's intelligent, knows his law, is well-versed in whatever he writes about and I admire his philosophy/world view/values, such as this quote from him, in this article, ".... someone provides me with incriminating or otherwise revealing emails written by a government official about a matter of public interest, I'm going to publish them without first asking 'permission' from the official who wrote it and regardless of whether it will anger them."

Our mainstream media is a joke and Fox News is a horror. When Katie Coric had Rush Limbaugh on CBS Nighty News, I stopped watching "nightly news," and basically gave up TV - thank goodness for AirAmerica and internet. I'm not warm to Joe Klein after his "expose" (during his Newsweek years) of a Navy Commander who had received "too many medals." After the "expose," the Commander committed suicide. I agree with Mr. Greenwald, the journalists, "the important ones," have become much too close/chummy to the "important ones" in Washington, D.C. As reported by Greenwald, the "important reporters" knew about Valerie Plame and did nothing. They knew about the lies leading to the Iraq war and did nothing. The MSM mean nothing to me. I read/listen to people like Glenn Greenwald who says, someone "....warn that I should be more 'careful' about attacking "allies" if I wanted to expand my platforms and get on television," but, "... If, tomorrow, someone provides me with incriminating or otherwise revealing emails written by a government official about a matter of public interest, I'm going to publish them without first asking 'permission' from the official who wrote it and regardless of whether it will anger them." And, this is called "alternative media"? The truth?

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