Requiem for a Free Press in the US: Where Did the Tradition of Journalists Speaking Truth to Power Go?

By Dave Lindorff

            It’s easy to let time and nostalgia get in the way of remembering what American journalism was really like back in the last century. Certainly it was not all Watergate and Pentagon Papers exposés, and even those two prime examples of the media’s standing up to government threats and taking on the powerful were not easy to get past the owners and managers of the media and into print and on the air.

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