Go! Go! Greg Palast! Go!
The great poison in the corpus of American journalism is the lust for tidbits of supposedly "inside" information which is more often than not inside misinformation parading as hot news.
And thus we have Miller sucking on the steaming sewage pipe of White House lies about Iraq and spitting it out in the pages of The Times as "investigative reporting," for which The Times has apologized. Likewise, we had the embarrassment of Bob Woodward's special access to the Oval Office after the September 11 attacks when Woodward reported the exclusive news that the President was a flawless commander in chief in the war on terror -- for which Woodward has yet to apologize.
While reporting from the Potemkin village of decision-making set up for him at the White House, Woodward missed the real story that, in the words of the Downing Street memo, our leaders were losing track of Osama while they spent their time "fixing the intelligence" on Iraq. Even if Woodward learned of it, would he have reported it at the risk of losing his access to evil?
And with that...I'm off to New York. Hanging out. Eating hot dogs and pizza. Riding the Cyclone. Peddling my photos to magazines. Seeing the Zero Boys, Gizmos and Teengenerate. Going to photo exhibits. Pretending (wishing) I'm Gary Winogrand. Good times.
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Access of Evil
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