Larisa Alexandrovna's journalism wall of fame

(from alternet...)

after nicely setting out what we all now know is the reality of the majority of u.s. media...

American journalism is not represented by the media establishment, which has essentially been co-opted into an extension of government-sponsored propaganda, or else has demeaned itself into a Vanna White-style superficiality, spinning content in order to sell another product.

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What the mainstream press has shamelessly proven -- more so over the last five years, is its complete contempt for its readers and viewers -- by presenting nifty parcels for purchase, as though facts can be diced and repackaged and still maintain their original meaning.

she goes on to compile a list of those she feels "are the most "fair and balanced" and those who are really "the most trusted names in news" and, oscar-style, even serves them up in categories...

Facts are not fair or balanced

• Keith Olbermann -- the anchor for MSNBC's Countdown
• Lou Dobbs -- the anchor for CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight

Courage is a prerequisite to be the "most trusted"

• Sy Hersh -- investigative journalist for the New Yorker
• Helen Thomas -- senior White House correspondent for Hearst Newspapers
• Michael Smith -- defense and intelligence reporter for the London Sunday Times
• Laura Rozen -- intelligence and national security correspondent for American Prospect
• Robert Dreyfuss -- national security freelance reporter and contributing editor for the Nation

Digging leads to scooping

• Mike Wilkinson, James Drew, et al, on Coingate -- Toledo Blade reporters
• James Meek, Ken Bazinet and Thomas DeFrank -- New York Daily News
• Ken Silverstein -- Washington editor for HarpersCharlie Savage -- Homeland Security and Supreme Court reporter for the Boston Globe
  

Special mention

• Walter Pincus and Dana Priest at the Washington Post
• Warren Strobel at Knight Ridder
• Jim Bamford, the expert on NSA dealings, distinguished visiting professor at the Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley

Honorable mention

• Dahr Jamail, Robert Fisk, Christopher Delisio, Justin Raimondo, Naomi Klein, Peter Arnett, Andrew Gilligan, Dan Rather, Max Blumenthal, Jim Moore, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, Molly Ivins, Bob Scheer, Bob Kohler, Brad Friedman, Rich Sale, Greg Palast, Josh Micah Marshall, Danny Schechter

good for you larisa... like you, i rely on many of these folks to help me both develop an accurate picture of what's happening in the world as well as to retain my sanity, and i believe that giving them the kudos they so richly deserve is not something we do nearly enough of...

my own "special mentions" go out to those who i consider particularly helpful in the "accurate picture" and the "retaining my sanity" categories...

• Bill Moyers, Sidney Blumenthal, Molly Ivins, Robert Parry, Jim Hightower, Steve Clemons, Juan Cole, Jeryln Merritt, and, of course, Larisa Alexandrovna...

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