Feeling grateful to the Bush administration is a rare experience
Thank you, Mr. Bush
In These Times
by Terry J. Allen
07/20/06
Feeling grateful to the Bush administration is a rare experience. But sometimes the White House can do something right, even if for the wrong reasons. The administration’s gift to the nation was to openly attack journalists. ... Now with Bush’s failure as palpable as a crowbar to the kneecap, the media are regularly reporting on the dismal state of the war, recognizing global warming as fact, outing NSA surveillance and interviewing former prisoners from America’s far-flung gulags. Bush has responded with open antagonism. It’s about time. The press and those in power are not allies, buddies or teammates -- not even in the war on terror. If their interests sometimes coincide, their roles do not. They are -- they should always be -- adversaries, and if there is not tension, profound distrust and occasional loathing on both sides of the equation, the press is not doing its job...
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2738/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
In These Times
by Terry J. Allen
07/20/06
Feeling grateful to the Bush administration is a rare experience. But sometimes the White House can do something right, even if for the wrong reasons. The administration’s gift to the nation was to openly attack journalists. ... Now with Bush’s failure as palpable as a crowbar to the kneecap, the media are regularly reporting on the dismal state of the war, recognizing global warming as fact, outing NSA surveillance and interviewing former prisoners from America’s far-flung gulags. Bush has responded with open antagonism. It’s about time. The press and those in power are not allies, buddies or teammates -- not even in the war on terror. If their interests sometimes coincide, their roles do not. They are -- they should always be -- adversaries, and if there is not tension, profound distrust and occasional loathing on both sides of the equation, the press is not doing its job...
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2738/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 21. Jul, 16:50
