The ongoing disgrace of NBC News and Brian Williams

Salon by Glenn Greenwald | Nov. 30, 2008 (News Analysis)

Just as was true for the media's own complicity in the Bush administration's false pre-war claims (which no network television show, to date, has addressed), as well as for the direct involvement of numerous media stars in the Lewis Libby crimes (which they reported on while pretending that they had no involvement), here is yet another case where major media outlets simply suppress stories that severely indict the integrity of their own "journalism." Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Dec 1, 2008 - 1:18 AM PST
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 by Jim Lang - Dec. 1, 2008

Greenwald takes NBC to task again for continuing to use military analysts with conflicts of interest and failing to identify or even acknowledge those conflicts even after they have been publicly documented by other news outlets. Greenwald expresses his moral outrage in unemotional and clear language, providing links to thorough documentation.

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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Dec. 1, 2008

Greenwald scalds both the biased unethical pro-war reporting on NBC and the continued use of discredited sources without disclosure of conflicts of interest. The failure of NBC to even acknowledge the scandal in their news coverage shows the arrogance of their disinformation machine.

Perhaps their should be a truth and reconciliation proceeding where media outlets can confess their sins against the ethics of a journalism that should serve to inform democracy.

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James Canning
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 by James Canning - Dec. 1, 2008

Absolutely must-reading for those following the subversion of the Republic by the military-industrial complex (with crucial help from snout-in-trough retired generals, admirals, etc.).

Articles like this help to explain the astounding idiocy of US "defense" policy and spending (buying as much weaponry as the rest of the world combined).

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