When editors attack

Wed, 21 May 2003 01:19:00 -0400
/media

I don’t know how much of Greg Palast’s “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy” has been mutilated, but the page that I happened to open it on had “September 11, 2002” replacing “9/11”. Now I don’t have the motivation to read it, I know I’d be fact checking all the time.

Compare:

and his version.

On my BBC television show, Newsnight, an American journalist confessed that, since the 9/11 attacks, U.S. reporters are simply too afraid to ask the uncomfortable questions that could kill careers