Journalism and Accountability
Glen Greenwald writes about the split in journalism known as Cacooning, where only those with sympathetic views to a particular source will be allowed to talk to them. I couldn’t help but feeling that is the way objective journalism would have it, don’t challenge the source, just ask the easy questions to let them say [...]
On The Torture Beat
For three weeks now I have been covering stories related to torture. With little time and no leads on sources, I did a good job with a story on Obama and the rendition program. Rendition, a Human Rights Watch director told me, means different things to different people. John Hamilton and I spent over an [...]
My name is ethan
This is the non-narrative piece that I did for KPFA over the last few weeks. It will air on our station at some point, maybe soon, and with any luck will be featured on a national broadcast in March for a homelessness day. The idea for this assignment was to develop or try to replicate [...]