When I began this blog in 2001, I was appalled by President Bush's headlong rush to an illegal war (we were not in fact under attack). As time wore on and Bush began his assault on the Constitution and any people bold enough to criticize, I believed that "the republic is endangered more by actions of our own government than by those of any terrorist." With the election of a high-minded, compassionate, intelligent man like Barack Obama, my fears have ceased.
"Honor them with peace, not war"
United for Peace
Tuesday, March 04, 2003
Telejournalist Dan Rather recently told investigative reporter Greg Palast in a BBC interview that American journalists are afraid to question Bush too closely, lest their careers suffer.
Also of interest at the TomPaine.com site is a memo to the media signed by 35 magazine editors, authors, and professors of journalism begging for more thorough coverage.
Copyright © 2001-03 Pam Shorey
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(not) Telling it like it is
Telejournalist Dan Rather recently told investigative reporter Greg Palast in a BBC interview that American journalists are afraid to question Bush too closely, lest their careers suffer.
It's that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions and to continue to bore in on the tough questions so oftenAn excerpt from Palast's newly updated book The Best Democracy Money Can Buy includes the interview. Read an excerpt on TomPaine.com
Also of interest at the TomPaine.com site is a memo to the media signed by 35 magazine editors, authors, and professors of journalism begging for more thorough coverage.
- Three areas in particular are cited as bearing far more media attention than they have received:
- Heightened risk of terrorism due to a war. The October CIA letter to Congress received little more than one-day's coverage in most news outlets. The letter had a startling message: Iraq poses little if any terrorist threat to the United States, but a war would pose a real risk of inciting such terrorist activities.
- Oil and the war. While it is surely an oversimplification to say a war with Iraq would be only about oil, it also be misleading to deny the fundamental importance of oil to the present conflict
- U.S. transfer of weapons of mass destruction materials to Iraq. The process by which the United States edited the December Iraqi 12,000 page submission to the United Nations before permitting it to be shared with all of the members of the Security Council -- and edited out references to U.S. corporate transfers of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) materials to Iraq -- received very little attention in the United States
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