Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Pakistan's Bomb, U.S. Cover-up

By Daniel Ellsberg
January 22, 2008

But there is a worse journalistic sin than being scooped, and that is participating in a cover-up of information that demands urgent attention from the public, the U.S. Congress and the courts.

Read on.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Don't be naive. The media's main responsibility is to serve the establishment of which it is a key part. Remember Judith Miller?
Check out Chomsky's pieces on the media, but have a barfbag handy.

Anonymous said...

It's not just the mainstream media. This story really hasn't received significant coverage even in the alternative media.

In fact, isn't this the first mention on consortiumnews? Where have you guys been for the last few weeks?