Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges on Alternet: “No journalist makes $5 million a year. No journalist has a comfortable, cozy relationship with the powerful. No journalist believes that acting as a conduit, or a stenographer, for the powerful is a primary part of his or her calling. Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.”…
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A voice, a face, a legend is gone: RIP
Tim Russert, the chubby but stern face of American political journalism, “the greatest political interviewer of our time and maybe all time,” has passed away after a “sudden heart attack”. He was 58. Moderator of the flagship Sunday morning program Meet the Press and the Washington bureau chief of NBC, the proud son of a…