Greg Palast, one of the finest and most gutty newsmen in the world, reflecting on American media:
"We've got loads of terrific investigative reporters in America, but gutless editors...Think of the punishment inflicted for the crime of investigative reporting. Seymour Hersh told me he was forced out of the New York Times and Bob Parry, the guy who busted open the Iran-Contra story, was pushed out of the Associated Press.
"On the other hand, Bob Woodward, who had his journalistic tongue up George Bush's rectum, who went from writing 'All the President's Men' to being one of the President's men, is doing just fine."
Posted by Deck at May 11, 2007 09:04 PM