[Marxism] Real journalism - filling the void of MSM and "opposition" party

[Dbachmozart@xxxxxxx]

Glenn Greenwald - salon.com
 
 
 
 
Thursday July 24, 2008 Newsweek's Jonathan Alter has _an article this week _ 
(http://www.newsweek.com/id/147831/page/1) filled with  all the standard 
anti-blogger "pajama" platitudes (along with some praise) and,  along the way, 
Alter writes this: 

 
 
But we're finding [blogging] works better for keeping on top of  daily flaps 
than for learning genuinely new information. Bloggers rarely pick  up the 
phone or go interview the middle-level bureaucrats who know the good  stuff. 
It's 
a lot easier to chew over breaking stories and bash old media.  Where do they 
get the information with which to bash? Often from, ahem,  newspapers.
Leave aside the question of how much "real reporting"  bloggers do as 
compared to newspapers. If one looks at most of the vital  disclosures of the 
last 
seven years -- whereby concealed, legally dubious  behavior of one of the most 
secretive administrations of the modern era is  exposed -- one finds that such 
exposure comes overwhelmingly from two sources:  (1) conscientious 
whistle-blowers inside the Government, and (2) advocacy groups  such as the 
ACLU, which 
have tirelessly waged one litigation battle after the  next in order to unearth 
the Bush administration's secret, improper conduct.  
full  --


<http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/24/journalism/index.html>






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