NBC Anchor Says Reporters Feisty Again(Editor and Publisher):
NEW YORK (AP) NBC's Brian Williams says the lasting legacy of Hurricane Katrina for journalists may be the end of an unusual four-year period of deference to people in power.
There were so many angry, even incredulous, questions put to Bush administration officials about the response to Katrina that the Salon Web site compiled a "Reporters Gone Wild" video clip. Tim Russert, Anderson Cooper, Ted Koppel, and Shepard Smith were among the stars.
The mute button seemingly in place since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has been turned off ...http://tinyurl.com/dzwhm
I'm ever hopeful...and also cynical. When centrist Michael Kinsley began 'representing the left' on CNN's CROSSFIRE one could truly measure how far the shift to the right in the US had gone. It's easy to measure, also, by taking note of the representation of right and far right 'think tanks' on news shows. It's overwhelming. The outrageous claim of a 'librul' bias in media is a prime example of the 'big lie' (" people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one ") pioneered by Goebbels. Mainstream media has been a joke for quite a while now. Not at all what a free society needs from the fourth estate: someone to be our eyes and ears in the Capital(s). They've been more a part of government than the necessary critics democracy requires.
Can it change?
Only if the audience does. It's seems to me a lot of people have forgotten or never knew that they ARE the government. The people in office work FOR us. Not the other way around.
It was a truly appalling moment when John Ashcroft spoke of 'giving' us rights shortly after 9/11. What part of 'inalienable' didn't he understand?
But I'm hopeful. A lot of people seem interested in being better citizens by virtue of the fact of the abuses of the Bush administration and their media whores. I can see a resurgent free (and critical) press leading us back to our foundational 'American' values and principles. Faster, please.
Link to Reporters Gone Wild: http://tinyurl.com/ccgbj
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NEW YORK (AP) NBC's Brian Williams says the lasting legacy of Hurricane Katrina for journalists may be the end of an unusual four-year period of deference to people in power.
There were so many angry, even incredulous, questions put to Bush administration officials about the response to Katrina that the Salon Web site compiled a "Reporters Gone Wild" video clip. Tim Russert, Anderson Cooper, Ted Koppel, and Shepard Smith were among the stars.
The mute button seemingly in place since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has been turned off ...http://tinyurl.com/dzwhm
I'm ever hopeful...and also cynical. When centrist Michael Kinsley began 'representing the left' on CNN's CROSSFIRE one could truly measure how far the shift to the right in the US had gone. It's easy to measure, also, by taking note of the representation of right and far right 'think tanks' on news shows. It's overwhelming. The outrageous claim of a 'librul' bias in media is a prime example of the 'big lie' (" people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one ") pioneered by Goebbels. Mainstream media has been a joke for quite a while now. Not at all what a free society needs from the fourth estate: someone to be our eyes and ears in the Capital(s). They've been more a part of government than the necessary critics democracy requires.
Can it change?
Only if the audience does. It's seems to me a lot of people have forgotten or never knew that they ARE the government. The people in office work FOR us. Not the other way around.
It was a truly appalling moment when John Ashcroft spoke of 'giving' us rights shortly after 9/11. What part of 'inalienable' didn't he understand?
But I'm hopeful. A lot of people seem interested in being better citizens by virtue of the fact of the abuses of the Bush administration and their media whores. I can see a resurgent free (and critical) press leading us back to our foundational 'American' values and principles. Faster, please.
Link to Reporters Gone Wild: http://tinyurl.com/ccgbj
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