A few of their reporters did a good job on the Iraq war buildup, is there more? (Genuine question.)
The Nelly Bly Wiki (Silverstein mentions her investigative reporting) is worth a look. She was daring journalist, an industrialist who patented the standard 55-gallon drum, a cute trophy wife, and the model for "Around the World in Eighty Days".
Don't let anyone ever tell you that women can't design 55-gallon drums, because they can!
Tim Golden, James Risen, Ray Bonner, Dana Priest, Jane Mayer, Julie Tate.
I'm sure I'm forgetting many many people. They're a minority, but if you see a good story in a daily keep track of the reporters' name.
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(1) That's a lot, and if people want to get better reporting, they need to pay for it in the only way that matters in an online world--by paying more attention to McClatchy and bumping them up in import on the cultural capital hierarchy. These sorts of things are the easiest way to get things to change favorably (see TNR), and they never seem to happen.
(More generally, what, on preview, Katherine said about tracking reporters' names.)
I fully admit that I'm not great about this, either.
(2) I think the Baghdad blog is interesting, and the idea of it more so. It bespeaks a certain openness. I don't read it regularly, though, so maybe there's some lack or active failure that I'm missing.
McClatchy was also the first big media organization to start picking up on the US Attorney story when Josh Marshall was pushing it and people were still poo-pooing it as conspiratorial nonsense.
Just posting more names as I remember them: Scott Shane, Carol Leoning, Carol Rosenberg, Bart Gellman, Michael Froomkin, Carlotta Gall.
I mean Dan Froomkin (his brother's a good blogger but not a reporter).
What Marty Lederman did with the torture memos is basically journalism--he was the first to figure out so many things that later got confirmed. He's almost like a legal forensic scientist: analyzing the legal memos to figure out what crimes they were used to justify.
You know what you could do to promote these reporters' work? Link to them.
This is yet another instance of misapplying the logic of a trial to everyday situations -- the methods of getting the information can potentially discredit it. Soon I'm sure we'll have prominent media figures arguing that disclosing classified information is automatically unethical.
Robert Parry, Gary Webb and Greg Palast are examples of journalists not able to work within the existing American media. Parry tried to go independent but didn't get enough support. Garry Webb was driven from the profession by false accusations. Palast works in England, not by choice.
I have to say I was a bit conflicted when I read the Silverstein article in Harpers. On the one hand, he exposed the corruption of the lobbyist system for foreign countries.
Nevertheless, the firms bidding for his business obviously devoted a great number of hours and resources preparing for their pitch to his false company.
Nevertheless, the firms bidding for his business obviously devoted a great number of hours and resources preparing for their pitch to his false company.
Hours which they otherwise would have devoted to actually white-washing some dictatorial regime. I don't see how this is a negative.
And they make unsuccessful pitches all the time. I can't see worrying about the costs imposed on them.
11: It would have been better if he'd cleansed the whole building with some kind of automatic weapon, but let's be realistic. Only Goths do that kind of shit. He did the best he could under the circumstances.
is the original article available online?
It does not appear to be up at the Harper's website, but (or because?) it is in the current issue -- available at a newsstand near you!
obviously devoted a great number of hours and resources preparing for their pitch
Obviously, they didn't devote enough to conducting due diligence.
And they make unsuccessful pitches all the time. I can't see worrying about the costs imposed on them.
Beyond that, Silverstein's piece likely provides good publicity for these guys.
Parry tried to go independent but didn't get enough support
In a fair universe, Robert Parry would be one of the most famous journalists in the United States. You should put Consortium News in your bookmarks.
Whoever decided that 'fair' meant 'get both sides to give a soundbite' ought to be batted.
Dang, Google isn't giving me any pages that look credible in the LizardBreathian sense, but Nelly Bly's trip came after the novel. Ya can look it up.
Nevertheless, the firms bidding for his business obviously devoted a great number of hours and resources preparing for their pitch to his false company.
The river, you cry it for me, yes?
Gosh, I feel almost as bad for those poor lobbying firms as I do for those drug dealers in my old neighborhood who had to spend so much time looking out for cops. Think how much more productive they would have been without that useless overhead!
That Food Lion case was a horrible precedent.
BTW, Matt Taibbi also did an entertaining article where he posed as a lobbyist -- in this case somebody lobbying the former Repub Congress to drill for oil under the Grand Canyon:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/9519839/how_to_be_a_lobbyist_without_trying
More local color than investigative, but really entertaining.
Belatedly: the Center for Public Integrity is another source for good investigative journalism.
What Marty Lederman did with the torture memos is basically journalism
Hell yeah. Guy's a national treasure.
Spy Magazine did the same stunt back in the early 90's, posing as representatives of a German neo-Nazi party. But they were doing it for laughs, so it was OK [/sarcasm]
Actually, to their credit, all but one of the lobbying shops declined to represent the putative neo-Nazis. I can't remember who the taker was.
Check out this story in today's NY Times. Gotta love this line: "A lot of people were seeking access -- not necessarily unfair access, but seeking access."