Indeed. Perish the thought that a reporter should point out when government officials are making bogus claims and are lying a country into a war, Greenwald wrote. That is not their role, says the New Tim Russert (and, unsurprisingly, the Old Tim Russert wholeheartedly agreed). Greenwald said in 2009 he found it almost oxymoronic that Russert was was constantly held up as the symbol of what an adversarial journalist would be.
Posted on: Mon, 12 May 2014 18:01:50 +0000