Bloggers accuse Washington Post of aiding, abetting Cheney

[deminks]

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/30/cheney-torture-investigation/

Former Vice President Dick Cheney led a counter-attack in the media against Attorney General Eric Holder’s investigation of CIA torture practices Sunday, with Fox News devoting half an hour to the former vice president’s views.

Meanwhile, the blogosphere is up in arms by what some see as a concerted effort by the Washington Post to “provide cover” to Cheney by running stories defending CIA torture.

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Glenn Greenwald at Salon was even less charitable.

“I defy anyone to identify a single way the article would be different if the Post had let Dick Cheney write it himself,” Greenwald wrote. “The next time someone laments the economic collapse of the modern American newspaper, one might point out that an industry which pays three separate reporters (Peter Finn, Joby Warrick and Julie Tate) and numerous editors to churn out mindless, inane tripe like this has brought about its own demise.”

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[Junkdrawer]

1. Amen

I was surprised that DU ignored this story.

Well, not THAT surprised...

[AuntPatsy]

2. Ive read it twice on two different threads...its not being ignored..they just seem to sink faster

[EFerrari]

3. Sing it, Glenn.

[tavalon]

4. wow, seems our msm is getting in trouble more often these days

and rightly so.

[EFerrari]

5. The indy media is faster, lighter and more numerous than they are.

lol

:toast:

[Cirque du So-What]

6. DUers have been aware for years

that the big, corporate media - WP included - serve at the neocons' beck & call. Finally, we've reached a point where reaction throughout the blogosphere is nearly instantaneous, and that's how it needs to be!

[Lagomorph]

7. Damn, it's like a conspiracy or something....

Uhhhh, what am I thinking.... No way..... Not enough special effects.

Turning on SyFy, I like my conspiracies with special effects...and Aliens.

[G_j]

8. another amen... nt