While Howard Fineman, Senior Washington correspondent at Newsweek and frequent talking head on MSNBC is trying to be heard through the numbing noise of cable news and journalism without investigation, by suggesting that perhaps Barack Obama isn't up to the task, ordinary people like you and me have to decide where we are going to find our news.
Yes, I find the smug tone of Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow entertaining, but I can't watch both, since they repeat the same stories and frankly, by the time a news item gets onto their shows, I've read it somewhere else. Except for some of Rachel's interviews. She's had some thrilling guests on, telling harrowing stories, especially about the Bush administration's war on terror.
I wake up to NPR, but lately they seem to be reading press releases and not really doing the hard work either. When I tune to WBAI, I sometimes wonder what year it is! Air America doesn't come in over the radio here, so I can only listen on the computer and during the day, I'm just too busy.
How could I have forgotten Democracy Now! If you miss it on local radio or television, you can watch the daily broadcast on line. In addition to getting arrested at the Republican National Convention despite her "big access" press credentials, Amy Goodman, founder and principal of Democracy Now! believes in the adage made famous by I.F. Stone: All governments lie.
And it's up to journalists to uncover those lies.
In celebration of I.F. Stone's 100th birthday celebration, he died in 1989, the first Izzy Award, was given to recognize independent journalism. The award was shared by Amy Goodman and Glenn Greenwald, a lawyer turned blogger on Salon.com.
Watch an extraordinary interview conducted by Bill Moyers, one of the best of America's journalists, with both of these independent journalists and then reorder where you get your news from.
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