Don Hazen, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. August 15, 2008. Journalism should be about afflicting the comfortable, and comforting the afflicted. Dowd just afflicts everyone.
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress AlterNet: War on Iraq. August 15, 2008. Rep. Walter Jones and six co-sponsors believe the American people have the right to see deceased service people returning home.
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: War on Iraq. August 5, 2008. "Maybe all these sources are just making stuff up. Maybe. But that's a helluva similar pattern of allegations, isn't it?"
David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. August 1, 2008. Many filmic treatments of Washington present a more hard-edged political reality than most of today's so-called journalism.
Chris Hedges, LA Times. July 12, 2008. The new FISA law uses terrorism as a pretext to permit wholesale spying and would seriously cripple our free press.
Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. July 7, 2008. While journalists should view Wikileaks with some skepticism, it cannot be ignored. Welcome to the brave new world of investigative reporting.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. June 26, 2008. Unlike the media's Brokaws and Blitzers, real journalists don't have cozy relationships with the powerful. Real journalists are feared.
Sherry Ricchiardi, American Journalism Review. June 4, 2008. How America's mainstream media has let the country's third longest war in history slip off the radar screen.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. May 8, 2008. The Bush administration has engaged in assault, intimidation, and imprisonment to limit the ability of journalists to do their jobs.
Dean Starkman, Columbia Journalism Review. April 25, 2008. WSJ's managing editor resigns, leaving Murdoch one step closer to having a monopoly on New York news.
Bill Moyers, The Nation Institute. April 10, 2008. Moyers: Journalists' "deeper mission is to uncover the news that powerful people would prefer to keep hidden."
Jeremy Scahill, The Nation. February 13, 2008. Journalist Dahr Jamail talks about the current state of Iraq and why an immediate withdrawal of American troops is necessary.
Thomas Boothe, Danielle Follett, Le Monde diplomatique. January 16, 2008. How one of the country's most fiercely independent news programs is surviving -- and thriving -- in the Republican-controlled heartland.
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. January 5, 2008. From China's investment in Africa to the rise of the left in Latin America. A look at what's happened in the world when we weren't paying attention.
Rory O'Connor, AlterNet. December 21, 2007. When seeking the best news of 2007, maybe we should look to ourselves, rather than the mainstream media sources writing the news to begin with.
Deanna Zandt, AlterNet AlterNet: War on Iraq. December 15, 2007. Ali Shafeya Al-Moussawi was killed in his home Friday night. His family needs your help.
