Letters to the Editor
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OFF THE RECORD/EYES ONLY
This is the best article Greenwald has written in my several months of reading Salon. Finally, a columnist interpretes an event (Carlson's) in manner totally contrary to, and unquie from, any other widely circulated journalist.
This symbiotic but throroughly power-unbalanced relationship is perhaps most obvious in the realms of entertainment and sports "journalism," if such even exists. There, any pretense of the hard-nosed reporter searching for the truth from his famous, immensely wealthy and powerful interviewees isn't even proclaimed. Fawning is the chief guideline followed by these "reporters."
But the underlying subjects of entertainment/sports are of no real import. So who cares?
If the People magazine model extends into subject matter vital to the public--politics, business/economics, conduct of government officials and so on)--which Carlson not only confirms, but is rather proud and self-righteous about it...if that's how Big News Media operates, it's no wonder we are facing the possibilty of a 28-year run of being governed by 2 out of the 100,000,000 or so families who are US citizens.
This is very good work, IMHO, Mr. Greenwald---keep it up, and thanks.