A post commenting on the fact that the mainstream media have not been doing "real journalism" (I would call it asking the hard questions), and that the opposition party in Congress has likewise failed to seek answers.

Greenwald reacts to a somewhat self-serving article by Newsweek's Jonathan Alter who claims that bloggers merely chew over breaking stories and bash old media. Greenwald claims that newspapers do far less of the "real reporting" than advocacy groups and whistle blowers. He charges that a weak Democratic opposition and a willfully blind pundit class enabled egregious lawbreaking by the Bush administration. He says the Beltway denizens who downplayed radicalism of this administration harbor and spew contempt for those who challenge and disrupt their comfortable fiefdom.

Glenn Greenwald is one of the best bloggers/journalists on-line today. He is on weaker ground here than usual, however, because Alter is right that much of the information used in the blogosphere comes from the MSM. Greenwald partially acknowledges that and in fact names a handful of the only "investigative" journalists that can still get printed today. He is also accurate in portraying most of the MSM as craven and pusillanimous, willing to ignore or even cover up the Bush administration's assault on the Constitution and civil liberties. Jonathan Alter himself seems to have adopted a skeptical attitude toward the Bush administration, as demonstrated frequently on "Countdown," but this was not his stance earlier in the Bush ... More »

"Jonathan Alter can pat establishment journalists on the back as much as he wants, but the record of the establishment press over the last seven years is one characterized far more by failure and complicity than by real journalism." Greenwald looks to give credit to the few good journalistic stories over the past few years, but finds whistle blowers and organizations attacked by big corporate media as biased extremists have broken most of the big scandal stories in this era.

Yawn! Rant on Glenn. That doesn't make it interesting. True, but not interesting.

Not news but a very disturbing analysis of the behavior of Congress and the Press when faced with a secretive and unscrupulous administration.