Zitat des Tages von Amy Goodman:
I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track.
A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.
If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.
War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.
Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change are much more deadly, from the growing desertification of Africa to the threats of rising sea levels and the submersion of small island nations.
We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.
