Glenn Greenwald has a piece over at Salon that compares WaPo's recent bullshit with a report that actually scrutinizes the "facts". "It's staggering that this most elementary principle of journalism is not merely violated by so many of our establishment journalists, but is explicitly rejected by them. That's the principal reason why our political discourse is so infected with outright falsehoods. The media has largely abdicated their primary responsibility of stating basic facts. One can see how damaging that really is in those all-too-rare instances, such as Cooper's article this morning, when a real reporter fulfills the core function of journalism."

• Greenwald's piece @ Salon
  
• WaPo's BS piece on Obama
• NYT's useful piece on Giuliani
  

previously on wtg:

• frank rich on the coup at home
• reason #394 why giuliani is a hypocritical doucebag
• naomi wolf on 'the end of america'
• colin powell: "what is the great threat we are facing?"
• 'dan rather reports' is the best news program on tv
  

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