Tag: Journalism

Matt Peppe – Media Uncritical of Justifications for Shooting Escaped Convict

Link to an article by Matt Peppe:

“Media Uncritical of Justifications for Shooting Escaped Convict”

Bonus link: “Outlaws in the Eyes of Amerika” (“The author . . . tends to assume the moral correctness of the system and its police forces, accepts their version of the events he describes, despite a historical record that proves not only that the government had its own questionably moral agenda, but that it was more than willing to violate the laws it was supposedly upholding to destroy these groups and terminate not only their activities but their politics.”)

Susan Milligan – The President and the Press

Link to an article by Susan Milligan:

“The President and the Press”

Bonus links: “State Department Announces New ‘Long-standing’ Policy Against Backing Coups” and Killing Hope and “Administration Sets Record for Withholding Government Files” and “Oil Imperialism and Monetary Policy” and “Fear and Loathing 40 Years Later” and “When Our Monsters Speak, TV Journalists go Deaf”

Reviews of The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark

Here are some links to reviews of the book The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism (2014) by Dean Starkman:

Robert Jensen, “Reviewing The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism”

Tim McCreight, “To Woof or Not to Woof”

Jim Sleeper, “Reporting for the Republic”

Corporate Crime Reporter, “Dean Starkman and The Watchdog that Didn’t Bark”

Peter Richardson, “Book Review: The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark”

Gerry Lanosga, “Lanosga on Starkman, ‘The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Reporting'”

Bonus link: Michael Hudson, “The Insider’s Economic Dictionary: U-V” (“Unexpected. Whenever bad economic news is announced in the United States, the media almost always attach the adjective ‘unexpected’ to it. This is because it is deemed politically incorrect to expect bad news — to expect unemployment to rise, or to expect retail sales to be down. To accurately expect bad news may be realistic, but to anticipate this reality is something like becoming a premature anti-fascist. So it has become almost obligatory for reporters to show that their heart is ‘in the right place’ by attaching the label ‘unexpected’ to bad news. The word is intended to work as a deadener on the brain, because ‘unexpected’ is taken by most listeners or readers to mean ‘there’s no reason for this folks. Don’t try to think about putting it into an explanatory system.’“)