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[ls317]

http://alternet.org/mediaculture/40803/

American journalism is not represented by the media establishment, which has essentially been co-opted into an extension of government-sponsored propaganda, or else has demeaned itself into a Vanna White-style superficiality, spinning content in order to sell another product.

But in a media era where propagandists and shills are ascendant, there remain a number of journalists who sustain the principles on which our free press was founded: to protect the governed from their elected officials and from the unelected corporate elite, always determined to skirt the law and undermine the social contract.

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Jon Stewart ,Bill Maher,Larry Flynnt, get it? Guy's without an Agenda

can afford to tell the truth.

[Atman]

2. I think all three of those men have an "agenda."

We all do. Their's happen to be agendas that more closely jibe with our own world views, but it is an agenda nonetheless. The republicans, otoh, don't really have an "agenda" as much as they have a "mission." Or "final solution."

[orpupilofnature57]

4. Your Right , their Agenda is entertaining us , where MSM hides under the..

guise of informing us.

[rman]

7. I think their agenda is more than just to entertain us

They provide a critical view on politics and society.

[emanymton]

3. "BBC" - British Broadcasting Corporation

Enjoy,

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/>

[rman]

5. Only two missing, in my view -

Amy Goodman
www.democracynow.org

John Pilger
www.johnpilger.com

[donheld]

8. Exactly right. Amy Goodman and John Pilger should be on top!

[Crankie Avalon]

6. Is Bill Moyers fully retired?

Doesn't he do specials from time to time?

[orpupilofnature57]

11. Yes and he was an honest Journalist.

[rman]

9. Many of these can be found on Independant World Television

http://www.iwtnews.com/home

[GeorgeGist]

10. As said elsewhere...

MSM is the propaganda that fills the space/time between ads and commercials.

[blm]

12. VERY DISAPPOINTED that Jonathan Landay and Robert Parry were excluded

The OPINIONATING class of journalists should NOT get the heralding that the INVESTIGATIVE reporters deserve.

The opinion class gets most of the public kudos while those who take the biggest risks and expose themselves to the real DANGERS of digging the dirt are often left unacknowledged.

In fact, the opinion journalists wouldn't have much to BASE their opinions on if they didn't have the INVESTIGATIVE reporters informing that opinion.

I normally love alot of your work, L A, but very disappointed that once again, those who retail in opinions get top billing over those who actually do the toughest work in journalism.