http://www.salem-news.com/articles/february272008/hank_oped_2-27-08.phpOp Ed: U.S. Attorney Firings Prove Bush's Political RetaliationsBy Henry Clay Ruark for Salem-News.com
This Polk Award --honoring a unique and very strong journalistic effort-- will once again strongly illuminate, for many more millions, what has been going on for many years. (BEND, Ore.) - A Web blogger who followed George W. Bush’s distinctly revenge-oriented retaliation-firings of several U.S. District Attorneys across the nation --the leaders in essential functions of our Judicial System-- has just won a famed Polk Award for news coverage. The work by Joshua Marshal led to the recent resignation of U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gomez.
Through their ethical and professional responsibilities, these District Attorneys General represent the heart-and-soul of the Constitutional provisions protecting the human rights of every American citizen, set forth in the Bill of Rights.
The award, for a publication series in TalkingPoints Memo on the Internet, is the first such prestigious professional prize for a Website news-blogger.
That in itself is a significant turning point from the mainstream media's pattern of shaping communications for every citizen on issues, problems and pending actions directly affecting our lives.
But it also represents a new high point in Internet news-coverage since that action by Bush II is --by any evaluation whatsoever-- surely the kind and level of offense demanding the impeachment of any President allowing it to happen in his time in office.
Further, it represents a striking retaliation, in and of its own right as a pattern for our American news-coverage, against the ongoing strengths and malign consequences of the right-wing noise machine, which has dominated the entire media-communications spectrum of channels for more than thirty years.
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