The Great American Journalistic Tradition
Despite the deranged and idiotic sqwarkings of the anti-American Left (and Right), America remains a Democratic, Liberal and Secular country. It has a great tradition of Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press, one which goes from strength to strength today. From the Nation, New Yorker and New York Review of Books in print journalism, through John Stewart and Keith Olbermann on the TV and now the increasingly powrful blogsphere and online media, real, hard hitting journalism thrives in the US.
Keith Olbermann is one of the best newscasters in the world and he could be considered the heir of the legendary Edward R. Murrow (indeed he even signs off his shows with Murrow's famous phrase 'Goodnight and Good Luck'). His latest broadside against the monstrous Donald Rumsfeld is a thrilling and passionate indictment of one of the most incompetent and callous men ever to inhabit the Pentagon.
Watch it, it really is excellent. THe BBC would never broadcast such a blood raising piece.
-posted by Adam
