Greg Palast gets Washington Post

[FreedomAngel82]

This was a forward Email so I don't know if it'll be on his site, but his site is http://www.gregpalast.com

<Deep Throat Cover Blown
>Washington Post Still Sucks
>
>Wednesday, June 1, 2005
>
>By Greg Palast
>
>I've been gagging all morning on the Washington Post's self-congratulatory
>preening about its glory days of the Watergate investigation.
>
>Think about it. It's been 33 years since cub reporters Woodward and
>Bernstein pulled down the pants of the Nixon operation and exposed its
>tie-in to the Watergate burglary. That marks a third of a century since the
>Washington Post has broken a major investigative story. I got a hint of why
>the long, dry spell when I met Mark Hosenball, "investigative" reporter for
>the Washington Post's magazine, Newsweek.
>
>It was in the summer of 2001. A few months earlier, for the Guardian
>papers of Britain, I'd discovered that Katherine Harris and Governor Jeb
>Bush of Florida had removed tens of thousands of African-Americans from
>voter registries before the 2000 election, thereby fixing the race for
>George Bush. Hosenball said the Post-Newsweek team "looked into it and
>couldn't find anything."
>
>Nothing at all? What I found noteworthy about the Post's investigation
>was that "looking into it" involved their reporters chatting with Florida
>officials -- but not bothering to look at the voter purge list itself.
>
>Yes, I admit the Washington Post ran my story -- seven months after the
>election -- but with the key info siphoned out, such as the Bush crew's
>destruction of evidence and the salient fact that almost all those purged
>were Democrats. In other words, the story was drained of anything which
>might discomfit the new residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.>

[Al-CIAda]

1. Yes, great story! n/t