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In reply to the discussion: 'We were wrong': CBS's Lara Logan apologizes for Benghazi report [View all]deurbano
(2,896 posts)53. I first learned of that from reading Glenn Greenwald.
MONDAY, JUN 28, 2010 04:29 AM PDT
The Two Poles of Journalism
Michael Hastings and Lara Logan illustrate the difference between afflicting and serving the powerful
BY GLENN GREENWALD
http://www.salon.com/2010/06/28/journalism_9/
<<With his Rolling Stone article on Gen. McChrystal, Michael Hastings has become both the personification of, and spokesperson for, Real Journalism, and as a result, has provoked intense animosity from establishment-serving reporters everywhere. He apparently committed the gravest sin: he exposed and embarrassed rather than flattered and protected a powerful government official, and in our upside-down media culture, doing that is a sign of irresponsibility rather than fulfillment of the basic journalistic function. As Barrett Brown notes in this excellent defense, Hastings in 2008 did to the establishment media what he did to Gen. McChyrstal exposed what they do and how they think by writing the truth after he quit Newsweek (where he was the Baghdad correspondent) and wrote a damning exposé about how the media distorts war coverage. As Brown put it: Hastings ensured that he would never be trusted by the establishment media ever again.
Yesterday, Hastings was interviewed on CNNs Reliable Sources about the criticisms he has received from media figures over his article, and that was followed by a segment with CBS Lara Logan, who lambasted him. I really recommend watching these two segments (video below), as they illustrate the two poles of journalism: those who view their role as exposing the relevant secrets of the powerful (Hastings) and those who view their role as protecting those secrets and serving the interests of those officials (Logan). Amazingly, Logan sounds like the most devoted member of McChyrstals P.R. staff or even his family: so furious is she that Hastings would publish an article that reflected negatively on this Fine, Great Man (whom she supposedly covers) so devoted is she to the interests of this military official that, at one point, she drops the neutral journalist mask and shows her Bill Kristol face, and actually spat: Michael Hastings has never served his country the way McChrystal has. >>
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Stupid too; many of us not claiming to be journalists knew you were wrong before you aired it.
Scuba
Nov 2013
#1
That's probably a great idea. "how misinformation and couple lies- can build a fake crisis"
Sunlei
Nov 2013
#141
you'd think these "muckrakers" would have learned after BushCo's "valid" source, Chalabi
wordpix
Nov 2013
#126
If she did any work at all on this, she must have known beforehand it was a pack of lies
Berlum
Nov 2013
#164
Memories are short. Logan reported fearlessly from Iraq and was gang raped in Egypt.
Rose Siding
Nov 2013
#109
Looks like Sen. Lindsey Graham’s office is going to need a new voicemail message
Snake Plissken
Nov 2013
#5
Sometimes horses realize that they are a lot stronger then the people around them ....
Botany
Nov 2013
#29
Apologizing on a morning show is one thing, are they/is she going to devote another
winterpark
Nov 2013
#16
Yes, she should be history, and everyone associated with her crap segment should be scrutinized. n/t
MerryBlooms
Nov 2013
#98
Click on the photo for a drop down window and it will give you the link. Let me know if that works.
freshwest
Nov 2013
#52
Did you compress the sentence? It shows up as an underlined link and a sentence. The link won't work
freshwest
Nov 2013
#111
That's what I have. I found it through google images. If DU didn't automatically convert links to
freshwest
Nov 2013
#158
Marcy Wheeler: @emptywheel: Just to remind, it's Cheney flack Mary Matalin's imprint which published
Hissyspit
Nov 2013
#40
How did the 60 minutes story contradict the account provided by the State Dept.
Hamlette
Nov 2013
#50
so, Lindsay is pissed because the WH closed the investigation w/o talking to the "witnesses"
Hamlette
Nov 2013
#65
it's hard to take this seriously when the right didn't exactly hold Baby Bush's feet to the fire for
yurbud
Nov 2013
#58
a lot of people lie on TV interviews (like republicans), why is it the journalists fault?
Sunlei
Nov 2013
#61
journalists are supposed to investigate their sources first before pronouncing them credible
wordpix
Nov 2013
#130
the source was his book and he was stationed there. He lied to the journalist (and the public)
Sunlei
Nov 2013
#139
On their website, right after I asked the question, it was buried on the right side list of
SleeplessinSoCal
Nov 2013
#153
I hear you. That was just their website though. I still wonder what kind of coverage their
SleeplessinSoCal
Nov 2013
#160
Next up on 60 Minutes: How the Grand Canyon was formed by Paul Bunyan dragging his ax...
Spitfire of ATJ
Nov 2013
#81
CBS going to do less retraction than This American Life which did an entire show retracting
Paulie
Nov 2013
#90
Well if you werent in such a hurry to win ratings by screwing the president..
Vietnameravet
Nov 2013
#106
If Darrel Issa was dismissed from his committee chair and the next one told there would
Thinkingabout
Nov 2013
#122
Some news organisations are blending traditional journalism with "outside sources".
mwooldri
Nov 2013
#143
I don't understand why this "Dylan Davies" isn't the target of intense scrutiny now?
Sunlei
Nov 2013
#140
No, Lara, a mistake is when you accidentally hit Reply All or wash a red sock in your whites.
tanyev
Nov 2013
#142
Its simple economics, big business is wasting advertising dollars on MSM that caters to....
Rebellious Republican
Nov 2013
#155