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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 12:00 AM

"Actual journalists" as government spokespeople

New documents obtained by the ACLU shed more light on the U.S. torture regime and how "actual journalism" works.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Wednesday, May 14, 2008 09:39 AM

    Joe Klein and journalism

    or what the rest of us call low hanging fruit. Today's media figures are not paid to be insightful, accurate or professional. They are paid to be distractions, to willingly babble the company line whatever that line is, whatever the company is. Klein is an idiot whose sense of self awareness and personal integrity is somewhere at the invertebrate level. In other words, he has everything it takes nowadays to be a media star.

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