Thanks to John Dufresne for this one. Thanks to Bill Moyers and his incredible career. This is required reading, call it a primer for everything else you read and hear from the media. Bush flip-flopped when he first called his mission a crusade, then backed off. He must have scared himself with that slip of the forked tongue. I guess "professional" journalism has let us down in America, where celebrities are more important than how corporate power is stealing our government and how government plays games with democracy. Read all about it, folks, read all about how where journalism matters, journalists are killed. Read all about how the quality of our fifth estate is inextricably linked with the quality, I'll add the very existence of, democracy. We're on our own. We report, we decide. Blog on, human soldiers! Do whatever it takes to hold our media, as well as our government, accountable. Turn away from the mamby-pamby pretty faces, turn off your televisions if that's what it takes, cancel your subscriptions. If you're not sure about something, Google it, or Joe-Schmo it. Forget your favorite brands, search for the truth. If you really love this country, do something! Grow your own food, keep your cars longer, knit your own socks (I have a source), but if it smells bad, and it oh so often does, don't buy it. http://alternet.org/mediaculture/19918/
