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* '''Bob Woodward''' "was a hero for his role in Watergate. He was a shameless opportunist when, in return for access to inside information, he portrayed President Bush as an in-charge leader in "Bush at War" -- a portrait that was convincingly debunked by Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who had actual knowledge of our clueless, disengaged and in-over-his-head president." | * '''Bob Woodward''' "was a hero for his role in Watergate. He was a shameless opportunist when, in return for access to inside information, he portrayed President Bush as an in-charge leader in "Bush at War" -- a portrait that was convincingly debunked by Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who had actual knowledge of our clueless, disengaged and in-over-his-head president." | ||
* '''Fred Branfman''': author of reference {{reference|1}} | * '''Fred Branfman''': author of reference {{reference|1}} | ||
| + | * '''Seymour Hersh''': {{wikipedia|Seymour Hersh}}; broke the story of the [[Wikipedia:My Lai Massacre|My Lai Massacre]] | ||
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# [http://salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/11/23/koppel/ The Ted Koppel I knew] (by Fred Branfman, on Salon.com) | # [http://salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/11/23/koppel/ The Ted Koppel I knew] (by Fred Branfman, on Salon.com) | ||
Revision as of 22:06, 27 November 2005
Gone are the days (if there were any such) when journalists could be depended on to find the truth and publish or broadcast it, whatever the consequences. Well-known, respected reporters and even entire news networks now have their own agenda, handed down by owners or by the necessity of maintaining close ties to those in power in order to have the latest scoop. Those in power have become skilled at manipulating the news media in these and other ways, with many journalists (though by no means all of them) acting mainly as political agents.
"Without a media critical of government, America[n] democracy simply ceases to exist -- as occurred when the Bush administration took this nation to war in Iraq by distorting the information it had about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction."1
Keeping track of the behavior of individual journalists and news agencies is therefore comparably important to keeping track of the behavior of individual politicians.
Notes
This page is currently based solely on the contents of one article, and needs a broader base.
Journalists
- Ted Koppel: see 1
- Dana Priest "deserves a Pulitzer for revealing the existence of CIA-run secret prisons." 1
- Judy Miller "was a mouthpiece, turning out biased reporting that was fatally dependent on administration sources pursuing their own agenda. 1
- Nicholas Kristof "was a real reporter when he quoted Joseph Wilson refuting administration lies on Niger." 1
- Robert Novak "was no more a journalist than a Pravda correspondent when he transmitted slimy administration attacks on (Joseph) Wilson." 1
- Tim Russert "is a hack when he throws softball questions at high government officials like Donald Rumsfeld, while mercilessly bullying the few antiwar figures he allows on his show such as Dennis Kucinich." 1
- Bob Woodward "was a hero for his role in Watergate. He was a shameless opportunist when, in return for access to inside information, he portrayed President Bush as an in-charge leader in "Bush at War" -- a portrait that was convincingly debunked by Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who had actual knowledge of our clueless, disengaged and in-over-his-head president."
- Fred Branfman: author of reference 1
- Seymour Hersh: Wikipedia; broke the story of the My Lai Massacre
References
- The Ted Koppel I knew (by Fred Branfman, on Salon.com)