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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-08-07 07:23 PM Original message |
Robert Parry and Gary Webb - 'propagandists' or great investigative reporters? |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-08-07 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
1. investigative journalists |
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ck4829 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-08-07 07:32 PM Response to Original message |
2. Great men, great journalists |
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Robbien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-08-07 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
3. What kind of question is that? |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-08-07 07:36 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. heh....that would be my call, too. |
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Robbien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-08-07 07:54 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Standard Operating Procedure |
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leftchick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-08-07 08:20 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. yeah |
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nam78_two (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-08-07 07:41 PM Response to Original message |
5. Whoever says that is just grossly ignorant or has an agenda of their own |
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bobthedrummer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-08-07 08:05 PM Response to Original message |
7. Dedicated investigative journalists that exposed the extent of corruption |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-08-07 08:08 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Except you have to wonder when the attacks on REAL journalists are coming |
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bobthedrummer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-08-07 08:24 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. They may be members of the Democratic Party but where are their |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-10-07 10:27 AM Response to Reply #11 |
43. I know - that's why I support OPEN GOVERNMENT Democrats who BELIEVE the people |
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6000eliot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-08-07 08:14 PM Response to Original message |
9. Got too close to the truth and had to be marginalized. |
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Faryn Balyncd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-08-07 11:19 PM Response to Original message |
12. Robert Parry is one of the great American journalists |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 10:06 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Great journalists like Parry and Webb are this nation's REAL PATRIOTS, imo. |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 10:10 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Who on the left has attacked them? |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 05:41 PM Response to Reply #14 |
39. In a few threads recently and in past two months. |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 10:12 AM Response to Original message |
15. Who's calling them propagandists and why? - n/t |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 10:20 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Some here have labeled their work as the 'propaganda' that gets posted here |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 10:34 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Well, our "big tent" does run pretty far in every direction... |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 11:07 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. I am curious how ANY Dem could consider the reporters who broke some of the |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 11:15 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. People can, and do, say just about anything here. |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 08:40 PM Response to Reply #21 |
42. True. That's why I never put anyone on ignore. Then they can't be corrected if |
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Time for change (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 10:16 AM Response to Original message |
16. I vote for 'investigative reporter' |
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tnlefty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
19. I just retrieved my copy of Into the Buzzsaw and Gary Webb has a |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
22. Both Journalists. |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 11:57 AM Response to Reply #22 |
26. More than remembering, this thread is an HONEST DEFENSE of their good names. |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 12:09 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. They can't control the blogosphere. |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 05:28 PM Response to Reply #29 |
38. They intend to MISUSE the blogs to revise history to protect those who protected BushInc. |
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bigtree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
23. excellent journalists |
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Beausoleil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
24. They don't usually "suicide" anybody unless |
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paulk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
25. I don't know |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 12:06 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Blair is in no position to "turn down" anything Bush does |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 12:15 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. Blair has been speaking out of both sides of his mouth on Iraq since it started. |
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paulk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 12:23 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. well, it would make me question Parry's conclusions |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 12:31 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. And what of his commentary that is backed in his own investigative pieces? |
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paulk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 01:16 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. I think his articles, along with every other pundit or investigative |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 01:30 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. I expect GOPs to discredit real investigative journalists. |
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paulk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 01:55 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. but what if the reader "knowing full well that the documentation |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 02:04 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. Well, then that person should explain what their conclusion is and why they |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
27. both investigative journalists |
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RevolutionStartsNow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
33. I'm reading "Kill the Messenger" by Nich Schou (about Webb) |
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Imagevision (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 05:46 PM Response to Original message |
40. After the Washington Post, LA. Times, New York Times smeared Webb |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 07:03 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. Webb connected the IranContra figures and MONEY to urban crack epidemic |
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