Journalists Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill Named to I.F. Stone Hall of Fame

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Source: Ithaca College

Past Izzy Award winners Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill are the first members selected to the I.F. Stone Hall of Fame, newly established by the Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) at Ithaca College.

Meanwhile, the center has announced that the sixth annual Izzy Award for "outstanding achievement in independent media" will be shared by journalists John Carlos Frey (for reporting on U.S./Mexico border deaths) and Nick Turse (for reporting on civilian war casualties from Vietnam to Afghanistan).

The Izzy Award is named in memory of the late I.F. "Izzy" Stone, the dissident journalist who launched I.F. Stone's Weekly in 1953 and challenged McCarthyism, the Vietnam War, racial injustice and government deceit.

"The Izzy Award and I.F. Stone Hall of Fame are an inspirational fulcrum leveraging the courage and journalistic independence of my father's spotlighted successors into a strengthening of world justice and freedom," said Jeremy J. Stone, former president of the Federation of American Scientists and elder son of I.F. Stone.

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Read more: http://www.commondreams.org/node/103228

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1. Izzy Awards Honor Journalism on Mexico, U.S. Wars, Surveillance

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/3/5/headlines/izzy_awards_honor_journalism_on_mexico_us_wars_surveillance

Izzy Awards Honor Journalism on Mexico, U.S. Wars, Surveillance

The journalists John Carlos Frey and Nick Turse have been named winners of the sixth annual Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media. The Izzy Award is named after legendary maverick journalist I.F. Stone, who launched I.F. Stone’s Weekly in 1953 and exposed government deception, McCarthyism and racial bigotry. The Park Center for Independent Media says it chose John Carlos Frey for "tirelessly probing the increasingly militarized U.S./Mexico border and rise in fatal shootings by U.S. Border Patrol agents … sparking congressional inquiry, criminal probes, federal investigations and changes in the Border Patrol’s training and use-of-force protocols." Nick Turse, the author of the book "Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam," was honored for "[giving] human form and voice to civilian victims of U.S. wars from Vietnam to Afghanistan." Two past honorees, journalists Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill, were also named the first members of the new I.F. Stone Hall of Fame meant to recognize "the new generation of Izzy Stones." The awards will be presented at a ceremony next month.

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2. Press release at ithaca.edu

commondreams just went offline, here's the press release at Ithaca College:
http://www.ithaca.edu/news/releases/journalists-glenn-greenwald-and-jeremy-scahill-named-to-i.f.-stone-hall-of-fame:-john-carlos-frey-and-nick-turse-share-annual-izzy-award-36968/

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6. Why did Commondreams go offline????

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8. don't know - it's in google's web cache

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commondreams.org%2Fnode%2F103228

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9. It's online.

I just pulled it up.

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3. First lesson under I.F.Stone:

"Governments lie." Thanks for the OP. bananas!

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4. Thanks to KoKo for posting in GD

where I first saw it: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024612755

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20. Thanks to KoKo to!

Thanks for the link.

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7. To be fair, humans lie, BUT

the lies to us of humans who have power to tax us, prosecute us, kill us, cause wars, etc. are especially egregious.

One problem is that we seem to deify or demonize these humans.

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15. If you need lessons for that you are brain dead ...or a repuke. What's the dif

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19. Ahem...

... I agree. When one is fresh out of high school, would you not agree that a person has been fed 12 years of lies, 12 years of the pledge, 12 years of pre-programming, 12 years of USA, USA, USA? I came from the midwest where we weren't taught to think independently, or to THINK at all. I didn't learn HOW to THINK until I got to college. So, yes, many young people ARE brain dead when they arrive at the door of college, having been raised in the repuke area of our country. It's why higher education is so important for each and everyone in this country, but especially for those young people from the repuke red midwest and southern states. And if you are not from those states, you may have been raised by winger parents, like in CA or NY or IL, etc. That is still years (18) of pre-programming. I.F. Stone went straight for the juggular on the first day of journalism class.

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21. I hear that critcal thinking in school is so last century.

I got to careful I don't praise real journalist on DU or I'll be accused of loving various malformed critters and animals.

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22. You got that right. n/t

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5. This deserves many recs

both journalists are so deserving of the award.

REC.

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10. Congrats to the journalists, but also to the creators of this award.

So few US journalists (or what passes for such) are telling us the truth anymore. Even if they lie only by omission, most of them are deceiving us to one degree or another.

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23. Most US journalists just post govt/corporate press-releases.

Any story that raises issues critical of the status quo will never get past the editor. Reporters need to get their stories published often or they lose their jobs. So they quickly learn what to write and what not to write about.

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27. I know. And I was still surprised when I learned

that straight news programs were airing videos made by the USG and delivered to them gratis, with no disclosure. I learned that during W's administration, but that does not mean that it started then and I would bet everything I like to think I own that it did not end with him.

Recently, Congress passed a law allowing the USG to propagandize its own citizens. This almost seems funny, being so unnecessary. That's been going on since the Federalist Papers, if not before.

Yet, I don't laugh because I have to wonder why, after several centuries, they thought they needed this new law. What the hell did they have in mind?

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11. They deserve this, but so does Taibbi sorry that he wasn't mentioned/included.

I'm happy for Scahill and Greenwald, though.

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12. This is rather sad attention-whoring by Ithaca College, which has no connection to IF Stone:

But I suppose anyone can appropriate the name of a dead hero to lend credibility to its brand-new "Hall of Fame"

Stone died a quarter of a century ago. His career as a journalist might have ended due to his increasing hearing problems -- but instead he started carefully reading public documents and sorting out the implications, at a time when many other "journalists" simply served as stenographers for official pronouncements at press conferences, and as a result he was able to point out differences between official glosses and actual events. He published his famous and influential Weekly for nearly two decades, from the era of Eisenhower to that of Nixon. Many of those writings are still worth reading today; and his final book, on the trial of Socrates, is lively and will reward an attentive reader with useful political insights applicable beyond the classical Greek period

Greenwald and Scahill are amateurish hacks in comparison to Stone. He would, of course, have shared the skepticism towards official versions of events, but he brought a careful analytical method and an intellectual integrity to his examinations -- which Greenwald and Scahill seem to think can be replaced by noisy bluster

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13. Speaking of "noisy bluster" ...

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14. and hacks

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17. Anyone who actually reads Stone will note the differences immediately

... I made no claim to inside stuff — obviously a radical reporter in those days had few pipelines into the government. I tried to give information which could be documented so the reader could check it for himself. I tried to dig the truth out of hearings, official transcripts and government documents, and to be as accurate as possible ... I felt that if one were able enough and had sufficient vision one could distill meaning, truth and even beauty from the swiftly flowing debris of the week’s news. I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context called “the significant trifle” — the bit of dialogue, the overlooked fact, the buried observation which illuminated the realities of the situation ...
The Best of IF Stone (pdf)
http://www.ifstone.org/collected_writings.php

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24. Stone's book on Socrates is pretty good.

He studied classical Greek and did some journalistic style digging to get a balanced account of Socrates' life, trial and execution. Worth a read if you haven't done so already.

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25. It's an excellent book IMO. But Stone had been a long-experienced writer and a seriouas observer

of political matters for a half-century before he wrote it, and he brought that lifetime of experience to his book on Socrates. His other texts are often also worth the read, which is why I linked a pdf file upthread

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16. I prefer the way halls of fame are done in sports

Only when a person has reached the end of his career can he properly be judged on his body of work....

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18. This so-called "Hall of Fame" merely reflects the opinion of Jeff Cohen and two of his friends

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