The World is Talking. Global Politics

Romenesko has a round-up of reaction to David Barstow's article about the government's propaganda stooges and their journalistic enablers. My assessment is here.

Glenn Greenwald says:

At the same time, though, in light of questions on this very topic raised even by the NYT back in 2003, it is difficult to take the article's underlying points seriously as though they are some kind of new revelation. And ultimately, to the extent there are new revelations here, they are a far greater indictment of our leading news organizations than the government officials on whom it focuses.

Yes.

Tags: journalism, rhetoric, politics