Monuments to paranoia built with fearless press' silence
07/12/05
A New York Times reporter is now in jail for not revealing a source to a federal prosecutor in a case distantly related to the Iraq war. She's the hero to most of us in the business. Her newspaper ought not be: Its reporter is paying the consequences of a news media, The New York Times chief among them (because it claims to be the nation's 'trust'), that have marketed almost unchallenged the Bush administration's lies about Iraq and its fearmongering in its so-called global war on terror. Did the press consider itself immune from the demagoguery it would not call by name when it had the chance? Its only answer -- in the jailed reporter's case, in the case of Iraq's follies, in the case of this war on terror going nowhere by the blast -- is eloquence after the fact. That's our fearless press for you...
http://tinyurl.com/dbk2e
from Daytona Beach News-Journal, by Pierre Tristam
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
A New York Times reporter is now in jail for not revealing a source to a federal prosecutor in a case distantly related to the Iraq war. She's the hero to most of us in the business. Her newspaper ought not be: Its reporter is paying the consequences of a news media, The New York Times chief among them (because it claims to be the nation's 'trust'), that have marketed almost unchallenged the Bush administration's lies about Iraq and its fearmongering in its so-called global war on terror. Did the press consider itself immune from the demagoguery it would not call by name when it had the chance? Its only answer -- in the jailed reporter's case, in the case of Iraq's follies, in the case of this war on terror going nowhere by the blast -- is eloquence after the fact. That's our fearless press for you...
http://tinyurl.com/dbk2e
from Daytona Beach News-Journal, by Pierre Tristam
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 13. Jul, 16:15
