See http://blog.une.edu.au/klausrohde/2007/05/02/the-pillars-of-democracy-a-free-press/ for previous comments on this topic.

And read an interesting and funny article here:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/04/05/media/index.html

You don’t publish outright false reports, but direct attention away from important matters to trivia, such as:

“Media critic” Howie Kurtz in the Washington Post today devoted pages of his column to Obama’s bowling and eating habits

“they yammer about Drudge-promoted gossip endlessly, and then insist that their own chattering is proof that it is an important story that people care about. And because they conclude that “people” (i.e., them) are concerned with the story, they keep chirping about it, which in turn fuels their belief that the story is important”

Glenn Greenwald was a constitutional law and civil rights litigator in New York, and is the author of two New York Times Bestselling books: “How Would a Patriot Act?” (May, 2006), a critique of the Bush administration’s use of executive power, and “A Tragic Legacy”. He has written a third book to be released shortly: Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics.

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