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What’s really sad is it never got weird enough for me. . . Lazlo and Nixon are both gone now, but I don’t think I’m going to believe that ’til I can gnaw on their skulls with my very own teeth. . . If they’re out there, I’m going to find them, and I’m going to gnaw on their skulls. Because it still hasn’t gotten weird enough for me. - Hunter S. Thompson

Journalism and Accountability

Posted on | February 28, 2009 |

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 what they want to say. Or worse, (and it’s easy to do) get them to say what the journalist wants them to say.

The Corruption of the Cacoon

Now, I am working on the “accountability” project for Link TV, amassing all of the articles and debates on torture, detention and presidential power in a single place to serve as a reference and comprehensive source.

Check it out at: Link TV Accountability

Also, the best piece I’ve seen so far about how Obama’s DoJ is doing much the same as W. is from Gleen Greenwald today.

Obama’s efforts . . .

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Jared Marchildon aspires to be a foreign correspondent. He produces radio news stories for KPFA 94.1 in Berkeley. Taking photographs removes him from this world and gives him a third eye. He has a problem with buying books, cooks rabidly, and replaced his car with a road bike. You can reach him at: jared@jareducation.com.

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