Honoring Our Journalistic Heroes

Opinion: Honoring Our Journalistic Heroes
Bernard Weiner
Bush Watch
10/12/05

Despite the overwhelming pro-Bush fawning of the corporate media, radio talk-shows, newspapers, broadcast networks, cable TV "news" shows and pundits, a relative handful of writers remain willing to speak truth to power in the mainstream outlets. Their courage and perspicacity shine like beacons in an otherwise dark world of pseudo-journalism in the current era, even when their own editorial pages cave regularly to Bush&Co.

The columnist Honor Roll includes: Paul Krugman, Bob Herbert, Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd, for example, at the New York Times; E.J. Dionne Jr., Eugene Robinson, Harold Meyerson, Dan Froomkin, at the Washington Post; Tom Oliphant, Robert Kuttner, James Carroll and Derrick Z. Jackson at the Boston Globe; Seymour Hersh and Hendrick Hertzberg at The New Yorker; Robert Scheer at the Los Angeles Times; Jay Bookman and Cynthia Tucker at the Atlanta Constitution-Journal; Marie Coco at Newsday; Jon Carroll, Mark Morford and David Lazarus at the San Francisco Chronicle; Joe Conason of the New York Observer; Robyn Blumner of the St. Petersburg Times; Warren Strobel and Jonathan Landay at Knight Ridder; the incomparable Molly Ivins in syndicated release, the irrespressible veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas and a few others. Plus, on the broadcast waves, Air America, a few lonely liberal radio talk-show hosts around the country, plus Keith Olbermann, virtually the lone cable-TV pundit willing to ask penetrating questions about Bush policy.

Here are some of the leading progressive websites that deserve our plaudits for fighting the good patriotic fight for so long: AmericanPolitics.com, AlterNet.org, AntiWar.com, BushWatch.com, BuzzFlash.com, CommonDreams.org, Consortium News.com, CounterPunch.org, CrisisPapers.org, DemocraticUnderground.com, Democrats.com, DemocracyNow.org, HuffingtonPost.com, Independent-Media.TV, JuanCole.com, MakeThemAccountable.com, MediaMatters.org, MotherJones.com, OnlineJournal.com, OpEdNews.com, OldAmericanCentury.org, Salon.com, Scoop.co.nz, SmirkingChimp.com, TheAmericanProspect.org, TheNation.com, Progressive.org, TomPaine.com, Truthout.com, WorkingforChange.org, ZNet.org, et al.

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