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One reaction I’ve seen to the accusations of plagiarism against Chris Hedges is, basically: Who cares? It’s true there are greater journalistic crimes than plagiarism. When a reporter fabricates stories, or passes along government lies as truth, people can get killed. Plagiarism has never started a war, as far as I can tell. But that […]
With the bad news we’ve been talking about on the public broadcasting front, it’s worth pointing out a bright spot: On Monday (10/24/11), Charlie Rose featured a discussion of Occupy Wall Street with Chris Hedges and Amy Goodman. Goodman made an important point about media coverage of the protests: CHARLIE ROSE: Does it have anything […]
Fox host Bill O’Reilly knows a thing or two about boundaries. As he told his TV audience Monday night, some “far-left” radicals crossed the line on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote a blog post about how some Republican politicians turned the attacks into a “wedge issue,” […]
I caught this story at Single Payer Action. The account is based on a talk veteran reporter Chris Hedges gave recently at the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, New York: “Knopf –which, of course, like all of these large publishing houses is owned by a large transnational corporation–asked me to write a book on […]
Viewing “two excellent pieces by the American News Project about the Fed’s astonishing actions during the current meltdown,” A Tiny Revolution‘s Jonathan Schwarz (7/12/09) confirms that “ANP does great work, and I commend them for taking on this subject–especially since it’s covered nowhere else, including on progressive blurms.” But he’s nonetheless reminded of a June […]
