Superficial self-critiques have become periodic rituals at big news organisations.But the basic and chronic failures to engage in independent journalism routinely elude serious examination.Such media institutions have no use for analysing deep-seated patterns of war reporting.The belated and fuzzy outlines of the US media's second thoughts are apt to appear long after the realtime coverage has aided and abetted DC war planners |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)