Friday, February 22, 2008

TV news does real journalism!

I wasn't able to catch the entire report on Countdown last night but the parts that I caught were some of the best television journalism I have seen in a long time. Basically, Keith O. and the Countdown crew out the open secret that the Bush Administration consistenly manipulated terrorist threats, in many cases exaggerating them and in some cases making them up out of whole cloth, to trump the news cycle on stories that were unfavorable to them or favorable to their opponents, particularly one John Kerry.

If there is one thing America needs it is more journalism like this:




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