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 Ana Marie Cox, Jay Rosen, Glenn Greenwald
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Posted by: via Ana Marie Cox - Sep 1, 2009 - 6:50 AM PDT
Reviewed by: Deborah Plummer (review)
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Sep 3, 2009 - 8:07 AM PDT

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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' ... More »

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," ... More »

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