John Pilger: There Is A War on Journalism

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/29/john_pilger_there_is_a_war

t’s been a week since Rolling Stone published its article on General Stanley McChrystal that eventually led to him being fired by President Obama. Since the article came out, Rolling Stone and the reporter who broke the story, Michael Hastings, have come under attack in the mainstream media for violating the so-called "ground rules" of journalism. But the investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger says Hastings was simply doing what all true journalists need to do.

video at the link ---

[niyad]

1. thank you for posting that--a welcome antidote to that bs from the atlantic

[slipslidingaway]

2. knr nt

[leveymg]

3. John Pilger is one of the last real, unembedded journalists. The Atlantic is boring. eom