...all of this just helpfully reveals what our nation's leading "journalists" really are: desperate worshipers of political power who are far more eager to be part of it and to serve it than to act as adversarial checks against it -- and who, in fact, are Royal Court Spokespeople regardless of which monarch is ruling.
That's why they're invited into the heart of Versailles to frolic with the King's most trusted aides: it's their reward for loyal service as Court courtiers.
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Our hard-core, adversarial press corps
by Glenn Greenwald from Salon. The author contrasts the "embedded" US journalists with Helen Thomas who was recently forced to resign because of her private comments critical of Israel.