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Thursday, July 9, 2009 12:00 AM

The significance of McClatchy's act of journalism

Yet another story reflects the danger of assuming the truth of unproven government claims and the use of anonymity.

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  • Thursday, July 9, 2009 08:01 AM

    Various comments

    1) Can you give us an estimate of when Nancy Yousseff will be fired from her job for actually exposing this gov't malfeasance? It is clear she has violated several terms of the Sacred Sycophancy Kode of Konduct that nearly all establishment journalists rigidly adhere to, especially Alicia Shepard.

    2) When will she be on Salon radio?

    3) Can you give us some insight into why it is usually only McClatchy Newspapers who allow such honest and critical discussion of the government's actions to be printed on at least a semi-frequent basis? Are their owners/executives not an inside-enough part of the DC establishment organ complex, so they aren't getting the "spin this story THIS way" memos??

    4) It would be interesting to hear from Youssef in an interview what she does to promote and expand this kind of "real" journalism, and how she sees other MSM journalists in terms of how they "report" the news.

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