Excellent article, but how could you not include Amy Goodman??

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Look up in the sky! It's a bird ! It's a plane!
It's Olbermann!

Keith Olbermann and I are on the same page. Anyone who would quote Ernie Kovacs on a news broadcast ("The money is nothing. Consequently it means nothing") is after my own heart. When he made his first appearance on MSNBC a number of years ago on a vehicle called "The Big Show" it was the begining of a beautiful friendship. And then, almost as suddenly as he appeared, he was gone! Back to ESPN, they told us. Sports? SPORTS??? What the hell was someone as talented as that doing wasting on sports?? (I'm unique in the fact that I don't follow sports at all. Who won the World Series last year? Nary a clue). For a number of years, I left a candle burning in the window. Since he's come home, I've been content.

How would won describe Keith Olbermann? A combination of Edward R. Murrow and Lenny Bruce? That's the best I can do but it even that doesn't work. The fact is this: There has never before been anyone like him. He is, no question about it, one of a kind. Occasionally he will cover a story that I have absolutely no interest in. But he'll always preface that paticular piece by describing it as a story "that my producers are forcing me to do". (A note to Keith's producers: If he doesn't want to do a story, don't make him do it. His judgement is sound). More often than not, Bill O'Rielly will come in first place in the segment, "Worst Person In The World". Maybe that's an ever-so-slight exaggeration. That he is the worst person on television there can be no doubt.

The image of Keith Olbermann that I have in my mind is that of a guy holding up a mirror in front of society. Society might not particularly care for what's being reflected but there you have it. He tells you the cold awful truth and yet he does it with humor. It is getting harder and harder to find any humor in the pathetic mess this country has gotten itself into and yet he manages to make us laugh while keeping us wise five nights a week. How he does it is a mystery. Quite frankly, I think the man should take a well deserved two week vacation

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled".

God bless you, Keith.

Pray for peace.

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
"The Rant" by Tom Degan

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Oh and by the way, this otherwise excellent piece neglects to mention Bob Herbert of the New York Times. He is raker of the muck supreme. He has got a book out with a collection of columns on the Bush White House. The book's title escapes me at the moment (Forgive me, Bob) but I absolutely recommend it to everybody! The guy is absolutely fearless!

Tom Degan
"The Rant" by Tom Degan

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...Robert Scheer and Joe Conason. I think we all have our favorites...

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No arguments about the above stated (I have issues with Lou Dobbs as would Mike Malloy) but you failed to mention Juan Gonzalez. In addition to co hosting Democracy Now with Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez writed for the NY Daily News. Someone correct me if I am wrong but Mr Gonzalez was the first mainstream journalist to expose the dangers of Depleated Uranium DU.

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Sy Hersh and Helen Thomas top my pyramid of media heroes, cause they are relentless and have been for a long,long time, but I've been grateful to Ron Suskind for the way he infiltrated the Bush political machine for us in the "reality-based community" and Syd Schanberg for his insightful reporting until recently on the press in the Village Voice (he resigned when new management fired James Ridgeway, another stalwart) and let's not forget Bill Moyers, who tread where others dared not go on NOW, which David Broncoccio has taken up quite admirably, although the show has been cut to half an hour.

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Everytime I hear the tag-line, "Most trusted name in news", my skin crawls. Any entity (or person for that matter) that has to promote themselves as "most trusted", should not be trusted. Sounds just like a used car salesman promoting himself as my new "best friend."

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Shouldnt Bill Moyers be listed somewhere here? At least as an example of what "fair and balanced" SHOULD look like?

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Eric Margolis. Don't forget Eric Margolis.

A regular and unabashed television commentator as well as a columnist with Sun Media and Dawn (Pakistan). He's spent years and years and years in the mideast and knows of what he speaks.

www.http://ericmargolis.com

G. D. Warbeck

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Shameless self-promotion. Forgive me.
Tom Degan

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I never made it a practice to be a slave to any nightly news program before Keith, but now I'm hooked. I can depend on him to "tell it like it is" and cover the stories that I need to know.

He does need a two week vacation as Tom Degan said, but with the possible exception of Allison Stewart, those who sub for him are inept. I rarely watch when he's not there.

Keith is the embodiment of one of the first rules of journalism: Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

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How about Will Pitt

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Sean Gonsalves (Cape Cod Times), George Monbiot (The Guardian), et al. ...

keep adding names!

There are so many good, progressive writers here on AlterNet and also on Common Dreams.

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Or maybe I missed seeing his name mentioned.
In fact, Larissa Alexandrovna would not have been remiss to have done a bit of well deserved self-promotion.

Frank Rich on occasion doesn't get it, as when he shied from going after Judy Miller, even after everyone else was retching at the mere mention of her name, but when he does get it, he is peerless.

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Amy Goodman not only reports the facts straight, her program allows many of the people you mention a widely distributed forum. Democracy Now! is 'da Bomb.

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My first experience with Chuck Mertz of (WNUR 89.3 fm Northwestern U..sat am 9-1) was a 45 minute interview with Scott Ritter. Blew my mind on the info you can get in a full long chat. Every week has some of the very best guests I have found anywhere. Dhar Jamail is a regular, and that is just the beginning. I turn off my phone and up the volume on my computer ( I stream it live) for the full 4 hours. Check it out.

http://www.thisishell.net/

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at the NY Times always makes me laugh and cry at the same time...
By the bye, I know you will all enjoy this: Ask Google to search "Failure".

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I've been a fan of his for quite a while. WaPo's Thomas E. Ricks pleasantly surprised me with his book FIASCO. He's been an evenhanded Pentagon beat guy for a long time, but his book on Iraq sure doesn't pull any punches.

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I have to add Greg Palast, author of Armed Madhouse to this list, my favorite investigative reporter. Here's a link to his website.

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One of the most thoughtful, reasoned and on-the-money authors/talk hosts currently on the air today is Thom Hartmann (12-3pm ET M-F, both independently and as the Noon alternative to Al Franken on AAR - and hopefully Al's replacement when he runs for Senate). His well-reasoned fearlessness in taking on conservative blow-hards willing to be interviewed performs a great service to all of us looking for arguments to use on right-wingers' half-ass talking points. He is the only major talk show host who can intellegently and appropriately quote the founding fathers, and other historical figures, like de Tocqueville. A highlight of every week is his Friday "Brunch With Bernie" discussion with Rep. (and future Senator from VT) Bernie Sanders.

He also is the author of several books that lay out the reasons we need to be concerned about corportocracy, theocracy, fascism, peak-oil and other progressive issues. See:

"Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight"

"Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights"

"What Would Jefferson Do"

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You didn't mention Bob Herbert - New York Times.

He is articulate, fearless, compassionate - everything good!

Also Nicholas Kristoff and Frank Rich and E.J. Dionne!!

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Tom Oliphant has an interesting conversational style that spins facts and story together. You can hear him on Al Frankin regularly.

Al Frankin's talk radio is a platform form many great hardworking truthtellers who may not fit the journalist catagory but they deserve
mentioning.

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(First, I agree that the subject Alternet post was excellent .)

Sadly, I'm a latecomer to the brilliance and courage of Helen Thomas. I do agree with her "Lap Dogs" article that the collective press is lame, tending to gutless. Below is an excerpt from a March blog-piece.

"From the elite of the quill profession to the sometimes cartoonish talking heads of T.V., as in from Dowd to Hannity, the media of America do scant little to educate the public."

"Collectively they behave as if they were youth taking alternating peeps through a hole in the wall of the boys and/or girls gym locker room. Espying a calf or a buttock they clamor and jostle to press their eye to the peephole and set off en masse to repeat gossipy chatter as news. This gossip game, which is passed off as a profession, is today so ingrained that there is little reasoned analysis, leading the public to neither want nor expects any."

I also agree with Helen that "Why The War Georgie Boy?" (as posed by her to "W" in yesterday's (3.21.06) Presidential press conference) is a question to which every human being on the planet deserves an answer. If the neocons, as most analysts conclude, had forceful cogent reasons for invading Iraq prior to 9/11 then let the world debate those reasons.

With thousands of Americans dead and dust from the Towers still falling, rampant nationalism and fear allowed a closeted committed few to hijack our military, democracy and international law to implement a long held agenda.

History demands that this "Why The War" question be answered.

Iraq is such a cockup, so ill conceived, so poorly implemented, so internationally ill received, so inflaming and offering such dismal short term prospects that I think back to the Spring of 2003.

George Bush, in a meeting with Gerhard Schroeder and Jacques Chirac, says, "Look guys, if you don't join me in this war you're not getting any of the post-war goodies. No oil field contracts, no reconstruction contracts, nothing, we'll keep it all for ourselves."

Jacques and Gerhard huddle with their aides for a moment and then smilingly respond. "Our loss is your gain, big buddy, we're going to pass."

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Overlooked, but a good progressive voice, and especially good on labor issues.

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Some already mentioned above

Bob Herbert
Joshua Holland
Bill Moyers
Naomi Klein
Linda McQuaig

not exactly a journalist, more a pundit, Kevin Phillips.

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Why the blackout on this issue for instance:
Mexico Piquetero
By CLAUDIO ALBERTANI

Mexico City.

The revolt against the July 2nd electoral fraud in favor of Felipe Calderon, the right wing candidate, is expanding. After three weeks, the occupation of Mexico City's historic center shows no sign of fatigue, to the contrary, the movement is growing like an unstoppable avalanche. In the past few days, actions of peaceful civil resistance have multiplied in the Northern part of Mexico, traditionally a stronghold of the right. On the 11th of August, in Ciudad Juarez, farmers on horses took over the bridge that connects Mexico with the US, blocking for several hours hundreds of trucks crossing the border from both sides. In Hermosillo, sympathizers of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took over the airport for about half an hour, while in Nuevo Laredo representatives of civil rights organizations symbolically closed the Mexican equivalent of the IRS office, and in Monterey women armed with pots and pans occupied the site of the Mexican Employers Association (Coparmex). In other areas, like in Morelia, Queretaro, Veracruz, Acapulco, and Mexico City, the freeways toll-collecting system was disabled, with the enthusiastic support of drivers, as Mexican road tolls are amongst the most expensive in the world.

It is true, though, that the heart of the movement continues to beat in Mexico City, especially in the area between Avenida Reforma and Plaza De La Constitucion, where thousands of citizens have planted their tents after the July 30th demonstration, the largest in the history of the Country. It is here that as the writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II observed, the of poverty-stricken citizens exercise their multiple organizational skills, born out of decades of social struggles. In a festive environment, the ancient informal solidarity networks break the rules of the economy, mould new urban planning strategies, and create start unusual products. Products, one has to say, that are non-commercial, given that everything is free. Hundreds of cultural activities, theatrical performances, conferences, spoken words, music concerts, Danzon contests, chess matches, ska shows, mural newspapers, and a mobile library break the infernal daily routine of this monster-city and attract the attention of passersby. In the improvised camp hospital a baby has already been born.

"Nobody is paying us. We came to defend democracy", some protesters clarify in front of the camera of Caitlin Manning, a Californian filmmaker, who, while on vacation and touched by the events in Mexico, decided to shoot a documentary. "The time of the poor has arrived" states Donna Lupita, an elderly woman from Ixtapala, one of the most wretched neighborhoods in Mexico City. There is no hate in her words, only awareness of living in a historical moment. Andre Manuel Lopez Obrador, who is sharing the joys and hardships (for example, the terrible hailstorms) of the encampment, echoes her. "We are prepared to resist for months. Even for years", he declared at the informative assembly of Sunday 13th, during which he specified the objectives of the movement. The first objective is, indeed, to fight poverty, this monstrous inequality in a country where next to Carlos Slim - a phone company tycoon and third on the Forbes list of the richest people in the world ­ millions of people survive in abject poverty. The second objective, as in Evo Morales' Bolivia, is the protection of national resources and public services: no to the privatization of electric energy, natural gas, oil, education and health. The third objective, of prime importance, is the right to information, which means breaking the monopoly held by private television networks and strengthening the public sector. The fourth objective is the struggle against white-collar corruption and the reduction of civil servants' astronomical salaries.

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Please add:
Randi Rhodes
Robert Parry
Diane Rehm
Terri Gross
Frontline reporters
Daniel Shore
Arianna Huffington
Mark Crispin Miller
GARRISON KEILLOR
Paul Craig Roberts
Sibel Edmonds
Peter Daou
Sidney Blumenthal
Salman Rushdie
John Dean
Daniel Ellsberg

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Keith Olberman certainly does have the self-righteous naivety of an Edward R. Murrow.

If the Second Coming of Christ were done in color for a full hour, there would be the likes of Murrow insisting that every channel should cover it, regardless of profit, regardless of choice, regardless of religious diversity.

It didn't have to be this way. But the battle was lost, even before Murrow stubbed out his last Chesterfield.

Why should snappy presentation be the preserve of the propagandists on Fox and CNN?

Why should real journalism wear dullness as a badge of honor?

Murrow's finest hours were spent describing the London Blitz in sensational terms to a radio audience. Nowadays such unabashed propaganda would be criticised in the likes of Alternet. But, at least Murrow's TV career picked some serious adversaries. You need to get basic cable and watch the comedy channel late at night to get that sort of activism these days.

The point is made by the speech at the end of George Clooney's preachy film "Good Night and Good Luck." Murrow really did believe it would be desirable to occasionally replace primetime entertainment (Ed Sullivan and Steve Allen's shows were the equivalent of Leno and Letterman today) with "a clinical survey of the state of American education" or "a thoroughgoing study of American policy in the Middle East."

The main problem with Murrow's proposition is that it abandons the field. Why doesn't the rest of the schedule (quiz show questions, satirical comedy sketches, factual news bulletins, interviews with "experts" etc.) break down the issues and jab us with insights into the state of American education and American policy in the Middle East?

Murrow seemed to suggest that the power of the electronic media should be distilled into its least attractive format to convey the most unappetizing information to an audience that was in a mood to put up its feet at the end of the day and have a laugh. The poor man was barking. He might as well have asked his viewers to open up their windows and yell, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"

Olberman's NBC show sometimes contains 20 uninterrupted minutes of fluff and corporate one-upmanship. He picks on easy targets. Recently he apologised to a rival station's anchor immediately after showing a clip that showed her humiliating failure to improvise a tease for her upcoming segment.

Comedy Central does a better job.

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I nominate Maria Bartiromo. I think she's a top journalist, or maybe I just think she's dreamy.

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How did we all miss him?

He did some incredible work this year on Dick Cheney and his "cabal."

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Fabulous that you took the time to list some journalists who are not afraid to take on this administration. I can't agree with you more about your selection, however I do feel that Amy Goodman should also have been listed. She has done a remarkable job.

Keith Olberman DESERVES to be number one. He has consistently asked the hard questions, and, is not afraid to question the administration. He does it in such an iconoclastic way with such humor that it tends to relax one. I find myself letting go of the 'FEAR.' The "Fear" is not from the so called Terrorists that this administration keeps telling us are going to attack us. But from the anxiety I have because I FEAR that America is asleep. That we are allowing this administration and the corporations to manipulate us in order to take control and get this new world order of theirs going.

Well, Keith reminds me to give them enough rope and they will hand themselves. It is now starting to happen. When their best laid plans and hidden agenda unravel, as it will, God help them. This administration will be known as the most shameful in America's history. Betrayal has happened before in America's young hstory. What we have got to remember is America was formed on revolution. Her people have always said ......WAIT A MINUITE ........... and will again, I absolutely have to believe that!!!! Kieth Olberman helps me do that. Right now they are getting scared, because of what happend to Liberman. He is in the corporations" pocket also. He mouths the Bush administration's propaganda. Hillary, I feel does the same. We need to get control of Congress so that their can be an invistigation into 911, election fraud of 2000, election fraud of 2004 and so much more. We MUST hold BUSH, CHENEY, RUMSFELD, RICE, ETC accountable for the horrors they have committed, AGAINST THEIR OWN PEOPLE, THE IRAQI PEOPLE AND THE WORLD AT LARGE.

In the mean time Keith is really doing what a journalist is supposed to do, make you think, come to your own conclusions, and then take action.

In a Democracy people should never be afraid of its Leaders..... Leaders should be afraid of the people.

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Many other worthy news reporters are listed above, but in my humble opinion, the list would truly be incomplete without my two heros of Comedy Central - Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. I had a problem with Colbert's self-righteous parody of the right-wing pundits until I watched him tear Bush a new one at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. After that, no matter what else he does, Colbert will always be a favorite of mine.

Thanks Jon, and thanks Steve, for bringing humor to the outrage. A person has to try to keep their sanity somehow, and with their presentation of current events, it does help. Honest.

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No one has mentioned Robert Woodward of Watergate fame. Oooops. Sorry, I'm feeling kinda dizzy. Got to go. I believe Joe Liberman is at my front door...

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For decades of service overflowing with integrity and passion on the issues that matter, regardless whose feathers are rustled, my vote for the top of this list is Bill Moyers.

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Well, it is all these same individuals who make up a good chunk, I am sure, of the US governments "no-fly list," "terrorist watch list," "NSA surveillance program list" and probably a secret "round-up list." What a shame it is that these same courageous individuals are the ones who pay the price, pay the price for us all by telling the Emperor that he has no clothes.

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The poor man's Seymour Hersh.

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The versatile Ted Rall and rising star Matt Taibbi.

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The worthwhile people you mention and many more are on the INTERNET and you don't have to contend with commercials or the pollution of any Bush supporters via the TV. You have just read an ample list here on Alternet and a number of other web sites. Save your TV viewing for worthwhile entertainment.

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Chris Floyd of Empire Burlesque has been writing critically of the Bush administration for the Moscow Times for years

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What a sad little article. It read like a funeral eulogy wishfully exaggerating a few motes of virtue over a mass of corruption. It slid slickly over the implicit corollary that if there are as few as six honest journalists in a media mass of hundreds of thousands then 99.9% of all media is corrupt and 99.9% of Americans do not know the truth about anything because the people they rely on to tell them the facts tell them lies.
If 99.9% of Americans do not have access to the facts about their polity their democracy no longer exists. Lauding a tiny fraction of media journalists whose only virtue is that they do what they are licensed to do under the first amendment is Pollyanna Maxima.
Quick quiz: Name the one amendment in the Bill of Rights that has not been breached by the present government. Then name any journalist who has told you about the other nine.
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Is smart, world savvy and speaks truth about how her own network, CNN, has been intimidated by the Bush admin.

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For their many years in the field, I trust Jim Lehrer of The News Hour, Daniel Schorr of Christian Science Monitor and NPR, and Frank Rich of NYT most.

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Your article made my day (like counting your blessings)!
Glad to see that the list keeps growing ("mainstream" or not) ... my contribution in alphabetical order (check em out):

Steven Aftergood, Director of Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy

Jim Hightower

Paul Krugman (see also: NYT)

George Monbiot

John Pilger (see also: ZNet)

Danny Schechter

Greetings from Talpone

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...LOL, many of us were NOT ALWAYS cynical and MISTRUSTFUL...comes with age and enlightenmentings and etc...There was a time when many took confidence and gave confidence to those "reporting" as most were not all so sophiticated at discerning the layers that went into "everything" and had faith we could rely on ethical behavior to save the days/nights and in betweens....Few of us TRUST the media sources...most especially the star mainstreamers of the current day...of course there IS a segment that dutifully DOES take those sorts as THE SOURCE of all important informationals....dolts who can NOT handle truthiness or truthmaticals or REALITY and need the ALTERED realities spoon fed so as not to bother their ditzified mind/mindsets which allows them the energy to wave those flags and declare just how patriotically inclined THEY are and disparage anyone who holds a differing opinion !!!!
Was indeed quite a listing, and thanks to those that have added to it .....reality does bite and suck bigtime but unless we DO find a way to hold these nefarious evildoers accountable on ALL SIDES in the current messy equations...the true majority of US will continue to pay a price that NONE SHOULD HAVE EVER HAD TO BEAR nor regrettably pass along to future generations who will likely pay an even HIGHER price for the mistakes of OUR TIME !!!!

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and their wonderful investigative news editor, Larisa Alexandrovna.
I still have Raw Story's Indicted! page as my desktop wallpaper.
Love you guys!

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Sorry, I oversaw your listing of Danny Schechter and Paul Krugman but no one seems to have mentioned:

David Corn at The Nation

Talpone

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But in a media era where propagandists and shills are ascendant, there remain a number of journalists who sustain the principles on which our free press was founded: to protect the governed from their elected officials and from the unelected corporate elite, always determined to skirt the law and undermine the social contract.

Not even an attempt at fairness here folks. Right from the beginning a totally one sided account, with blame assigned, judgement passed and not even a shadow of a conscience. You really need to look at yourself and why you're so hostile, lady.

I do not deny there are people who match the descriptions, but to put everyone in that category is shameful. Even to publish this is shameful. Shame on you Alternet.

Yeah.

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.. the many journalists who have lost their lives in the line of duty - More journos have died in Iraq than did during the Vietnam war or during WWII.

"The war in Iraq has proved to be the deadliest for journalists since World War II. A total of 86 journalists and media assistants have been killed in Iraq since the war began on 20 March 2003. This is more than the number killed during 20 years of war in Vietnam or the civil war in Algeria."
-- Reporters without borders - 20 March, '06

"More journalists died in Iraq than in either the Second World War or the conflict in Vietnam and Cambodia." -- cbc-ca, 5 May '06

From Editor & Publisher, April 27, 2006, By Mark Fitzgerald
"In less than three years, more journalists have been killed covering the Iraq war than died around the globe in World War II or in the 20-year conflict in Vietnam and Cambodia, according to the Freedom Forum and Newseum." (emph added)

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.. those courageous ones who began asking questions about the events of a certain day in 2001. "Why the Silence?" was asked by Will Rivers Pitt in early 2002; since then Alex Jones has never stopped questioning or reporting on all that begins to be revealed.

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and he should be here. I trust him for accurate reporting.

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Lets not forget Robert Parry (now on website Consortium for Independent Journalism) who was blackballed from Washington Post for exposing Geo, Bush, Sr. and CIA on "October Surprise" (about deal struck with Iran to keep hastages until after election story) that gained Ronald Reagan's win over Carter.

And Gary Webb who was drummed out of the San Jose Mercury Sun as reward for his series on the CIA covertly raising Contra money by flooding Los Angeles with cocaine.

Note: It was the competing editors of the media establishment that charged "irresponsible journalism" and forced the employer editors to demote and fire their excellent reporters. Thie is the real reason we should be celebrating good and worthy journalists when they practice their trade faithfully. The truth will overcome.

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She's the only MSM columnist who has ever responded to an email message from me and, like you, I was shivering and teary-eyed to get it.

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The sadly-departed star of radical campaigning journalism, who died recently.

PAUL FOOT had stints at both The Guardian and the Daily Mirror in the UK, and of course a long-standing commitment to Private Eye where he wrote a column and was Editor for a time. I read his columns at every opportunity when I still lived there. He was England's muckraker supreme, got under the skin of the powers in English politics, particularly neo-fascist, Margaret Thatcher. He remained a campaigner 'til his last breath.

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Keith - Run for something important. I'll vote for you!

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What about Mike Malloy, who was unceremoniously dumped last week by Air America? The so-called "progressive" Air America listened to the corporate talking heads and booted the only one of the few radio people who spoke the truth.

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