Articles by Leslie Griffith
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Dan, Rather Outspoken
Leslie Griffith - Reader Supported News,
28 May 2012
In “Rather Outspoken,” one of broadcast journalism’s elder statesmen reflects on the state of the news business, and a career that spans from the glory days to what many of us see as the bitter end. Sadly, Rather’s latest book reminds us that reporters had best be careful when they set about the business of digging up news. And they damn-well better make sure the media corporations for which they work are ready and willing to stand by them.
→ read full articleTarred and Feathered: Exxon/Murdoch/Cheney … At It Again
Leslie Griffith - Reader Supported News,
19 Sep 2011
“It is said those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. And, in my experience, to report on it … again and again … as if the failures of the past offer no instruction at all.” That thought slapped me sober while thinking about tar sands and, moments later, when running across this story on Rupert Murdoch’s and Dick Cheney’s forays into the sticky boondoggle of tar sands’ predecessor – oil shale.
→ read full articleJournalism 101 – How to Avoid Being a Propaganda Tool
Leslie Griffith - Reader Supported News,
20 Jun 2011
It’s been a long, slow slide for CNN. The once-proud cable news pioneer has consistently crawled under the media’s lowering bar, but this week it blazed a new trail to the bottom.
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