"It's every bit as legitimate - and as vital - to hold them accountable as it is political officials themselves. Far more than they are 'outsiders,' they are now appendages of - spokespeople for - the political and financial establishment itself, as much as a Cabinet Secretary or White House Chief of Staff or an official in a large corporation. I don't see 'political officials' and 'establishment journalists' as two separate groups; I view them as merged, with the latter being important facilitators of (servants to) the former (which is why they're able so easily to switch from one to the other). That's why I write as much as I do about media behavior. What I learned from the very first political controversy on which I worked intensely as a blogger (the warrantless eavesdropping scandal) - when establishment pundits (including Klein) rushed forward virtually in unison to insist that Bush had done nothing wrong by breaking the law - media behavior can't be extricated from any issue. It shapes and determines all of them."
I'm trying not to repost every Greenwald article, really
"It's every bit as legitimate - and as vital - to hold them accountable as it is political officials themselves. Far more than they are 'outsiders,' they are now appendages of - spokespeople for - the political and financial establishment itself, as much as a Cabinet Secretary or White House Chief of Staff or an official in a large corporation. I don't see 'political officials' and 'establishment journalists' as two separate groups; I view them as merged, with the latter being important facilitators of (servants to) the former (which is why they're able so easily to switch from one to the other). That's why I write as much as I do about media behavior. What I learned from the very first political controversy on which I worked intensely as a blogger (the warrantless eavesdropping scandal) - when establishment pundits (including Klein) rushed forward virtually in unison to insist that Bush had done nothing wrong by breaking the law - media behavior can't be extricated from any issue. It shapes and determines all of them."
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huh
"The problem for a terrorist group like Al Qaeda is that its recruitment pool is Muslims, but most Muslims are not interested in terrorism. Most…
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today's good read
"It’s Time for Black Liberation, Not Liberalism."
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What lead to the death of the enclosed mall as a concept?
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