No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.
They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick b… - Alexander Cockburn
They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick b…
- Alexander Cockburn
There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to … - Alexander Cockburn
There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to …
Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan has deadenedthe senses against a… - Alexander Cockburn
Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan has deadenedthe senses against a…
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it. - Alexander Cockburn
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years has been to… - Alexander Cockburn
Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years has been to…
There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the t… - Alexander Cockburn
There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the t…
Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be … - Alexander Cockburn
Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be …
The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences - Alexander Cockburn
The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences
A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every … - Alexander Cockburn
A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every …
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