Tag: Scooter Libby
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Dear American News Media: Please Stop Being “Accessories To The Murder Of Democracy”
You would think having a story as big and juicy as Donald Trump – a man who wore his treason on his sleeve (“Hey, Russia, if you’re listening…!”) – who said things like “Mexicans are rapists” and “pussy grabbing”, and who lied so often and about everything that the press started keeping count – would…
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In “Both Sides Do It” World, A Politician, A Criminal And A Public Servant Are All The Same Thing
American journalism has a lot to answer for. Given multiple opportunities to be the new Woodward-Bernstein, most American journalists chose to be Judith Miller instead. Judith Miller was the vaunted New York Times Reporter with the remarkable inside access to the George W. Bush White House and to the office of Vice President Dick Cheney…
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There’s A Difference Between Storytellers & “Storytellees”; That Difference Is Why American News Media SUCKS…
First things first. Journalists are storytellers. News is a story about what’s happening (theoretically out here in reality) right here, right now. As news anchors all over the world put it as they start yakking — “Here’s what’s happening now“. Then they proceed to tell you the story. Except way too many journalists are piss-poor…