talking about the role of media....
"I have written about the Arab-Israeli conflict on and off for more than a
quarter-century and have spent the past four weeks covering Israel's war in
Gaza. For me, Mr. Husseini's story sums up how the two sides speak in two
distinct tongues, how the very words they use mean opposite things to each
other, and how the war of language can confound a reporter's attempts to
narrate - or a new president's attempts to mediate - this conflict in a way both
sides can accept as fair."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/weekinreview/25bronner.html
"Journalists were grossly deficient when it came to covering the reckless
behavior, sleaze and willful ignorance of fundamental economics, much of which
was reasonably obvious to anyone who was paying attention, that inflated the
housing and credit bubbles of the past decade. Their frequent cheerleading for
bad practices -- and near-total failure to warn us, repeatedly and relentlessly,
of what was building -- made a bad situation worse."
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/23/the_medias_role_in_the_financial_crisis/
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