Year in Review: Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald on the Media’s Wars

[KoKo]

Year in Review: Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald on the Media’s Wars
By: GRITtv Monday December 28, 2009 11:00 am

The independent media has all but taken over the old role of the Fourth Estate, and Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald are two of the most respected voices in the new media generation. We spoke to them on October 1st. We wrote then:

The absence of a critical fourth estate in the run up to the war in Iraq is widely acknowledged, even by the establishment media that trumpeted the lies and misinformation of the Bush administration. Take the NYT yesterday in an article comparing intelligence on Iran’s nuclear capabilities with Colin Powell’s presentation on Iraq in 2003:

“In many dissections of the blunders before the Iraq war, the news media, including The New York Times, came in for a share of the criticism for repeating Bush administration claims about Iraq without sufficient scrutiny or skepticism.”

You say? The question today is whether the media have learned anything at all. From torture to saber rattling over Iran is there enough scrutiny and skepticism? And if not are independent journalists picking up the slack? Glenn Greewald, a columnist at Salon and the author of Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politicsir?t=lauraflanders-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307408663 and Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Armyir?t=lauraflanders-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1560259795 on the battle between the independent press and the mainstream media.

THIS IS AN EXCELLENT WATCH:
http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2009/12/28/year-in-review-jeremy-scahill-and-glenn-greenwald-on-the-medias-wars/

[Don Caballero]

1. Who cares what Libertarians have to say?

These guys are definitely working against the President and the best interests of our country. It bewilders me why these guys are given a free pass around here. To me they are right up there with Hamsher and Nader in terms of being roadblocks and naysayers.

[KoKo]

2. OFGS...Watch it...Do you not have and "Open Mind?"

:shrug:

[donheld]

3. Spot on. I love it.