In a column that harkens back to his glory days as a media critic for the New York Times, David Carr calls out the journalists (David Toobin, David Gregory and Jeffrey Toobin) who have brutally attacked Juliana Sanchez of WikiLeaks and Glenn Greenwald of the Guardian.
When traditional print and broadcast journalist from corporate media attack bloggers and other new media types, he points out, they are siding with the government against journalism itself and thus imperiling the entire profession.
So what are these guys thinking, he asks?
It’s a great piece, and I applaud him for taking this stand, but he is clearly unwilling to say what must be said: it’s political. The guys who are attacking the whistleblowers and leakers, who fantasize about a drone strike against Julian Assange or Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker, are right wing, statist, sons of bitches who belong in camps themselves after the revolution comes one day.
The irony is rife: even as they accuse others of not being “real journalists,” they are themselves betraying the very essence of what it means to be a journalist: opposition to government. You cannot possibly trust government and be a real journalist.
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“The guys who are attacking the whistleblowers and leakers, who fantasize about a drone strike against Julian Assange or Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker, are right wing, statist, sons of bitches who belong in camps themselves after the revolution comes one day.”
AMEN TO THAT!!
I’ve always said it is The Enablers who are most dangerous. They are the ones servile to state power that use their every waking moment to undermine democracy, to halt any possibility of meaningful change. They use everything from pure propaganda to lies, smears, hyperbole, character assassination …. whatever it takes. All in service of the state and the maintenance of state authority.
It is these enablers that must be dealt with in the most harsh terms. Put them in camps? Hell — they must be beheaded on national TV. Their throats slit and bled out nice and slow for the others to see. The utter stink of their lies, and their enjoyment at disseminating such lies in service of their masters, mandates a punishment so severe it would make a slaughterhouse worker wretch and vomit.
THIS is the exkiodexian I like and miss. Lately the crazy one that hates labor, youth, and foreign nations has been showing up more.