Comments on: Where has all the investigative reporting gone? To the blogosphere. http://chrisblattman.com/2009/10/06/where-has-all-the-investigative-reporting-gone-to-the-blogosphere/ Research, international development, foreign policy, and violent conflict Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:45:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: dan k http://chrisblattman.com/2009/10/06/where-has-all-the-investigative-reporting-gone-to-the-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-7688 dan k Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:09:22 +0000 http://chrisblattman.com/?p=3573#comment-7688 It's ok Chris, we have hide power from truth reporters like Anne Kornblut on the case at the WaPo! Check out her sources on a recent piece about counter-terrorism: Obama aides pointed . . . administration officials said . . . a senior administration official said . . . officials said . . . a senior administration official said . . . senior Obama officials stressed . . . a senior administration official said . . . aides said . . . officials said . . . one senior administration official said. . . . one senior official said. . . . The official said . . . a senior administration official said . . . a senior administration official said . . . administration officials said . . . . a senior official said. I would call our current corporate media stenographers, but that would be an insult to a useful profession. They truly are toadies who exist only to tour the cocktail party and reassure the politicos that they are just making "the tough calls". Pathetic. The original article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/05/AR2009100503989.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2009100503990 The Glenn Greenwald post: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/06/obama/index.html It’s ok Chris, we have hide power from truth reporters like Anne Kornblut on the case at the WaPo!

Check out her sources on a recent piece about counter-terrorism:
Obama aides pointed . . . administration officials said . . . a senior administration official said . . . officials said . . . a senior administration official said . . . senior Obama officials stressed . . . a senior administration official said . . . aides said . . . officials said . . . one senior administration official said. . . . one senior official said. . . . The official said . . . a senior administration official said . . . a senior administration official said . . . administration officials said . . . . a senior official said.

I would call our current corporate media stenographers, but that would be an insult to a useful profession. They truly are toadies who exist only to tour the cocktail party and reassure the politicos that they are just making “the tough calls”. Pathetic.

The original article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/05/AR2009100503989.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2009100503990

The Glenn Greenwald post:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/06/obama/index.html

]]> By: Divya http://chrisblattman.com/2009/10/06/where-has-all-the-investigative-reporting-gone-to-the-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-7658 Divya Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:59:38 +0000 http://chrisblattman.com/?p=3573#comment-7658 I have emailed NY Times at all three email addressed mentioned. I am appalled at such sloppy reporting. This is why I don’t read newspapers. I have emailed NY Times at all three email addressed mentioned. I am appalled at such sloppy reporting. This is why I don’t read newspapers.

]]> By: Michael http://chrisblattman.com/2009/10/06/where-has-all-the-investigative-reporting-gone-to-the-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-7644 Michael Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:50:07 +0000 http://chrisblattman.com/?p=3573#comment-7644 There are a lot of days in which I'm deeply glad that I have recognized that I haven't the foggiest idea of what's going on in Darfur, except that it's bad and I am powerless to meaningfully affect it. There are a lot of days in which I’m deeply glad that I have recognized that I haven’t the foggiest idea of what’s going on in Darfur, except that it’s bad and I am powerless to meaningfully affect it.

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