The video is worth watching and the transcript is worth reading…Motivated me to read The Runaway General by Michael Hastings…real eye opener!

It would be very difficult to classify an article that unabashedly rips open the curtain concealing the "Wizard" as anything else but good journalism. The interview was focused, doesn't meander along commercially convenient by-ways or pull punches on 'underwritten' journalists that have for promises, power or payola put down their pens and began their reporting using pastels. The article leaves the reader disturbed and curious.

Although this television interview emphatically indicts the news media–turned “echo chambers for authority”–about their enthusiastic cheerleading for two wars Bushies started, it’s actually a condemnation of the entire infotainment-for-profits industry making a miserable failure masquerading as journalism. Far from sinning professionally, Michael Hastings is actually doing what journalists are supposed to do: namely hold politicians’ and others’ feet to the fire, and question and probe every idiotic statement–more plenteous today than every grain of sand on a thousand beaches. With the cooperation of all media, politicians are free to utter any crackbrained, off-the-wall statement their empty little minds can ... More »

A strong defense of the proper role of journalism, and a critique of the mainstream embedded infotainment pretense of news.

A well-done interview on the fallout from the now well-known piece in Rolling Stone, to which I've linked--if you check there there are related links I've posted, which also apply here...