[Monday night I watched the ABC evening news with my mother, and noticed that they never even mentioned one of the biggest news stories for our nation right now -- the protests in Wisconsin. "Liberal media"? Where?]</p>
"[W]hat I think is interesting is to look at what journalists, establishment journalists, who work in the largest corporations in the country, in the media division, say about what their role is. In order to understand how the reporting on Iraq was done. How it's done on the financial crisis. Last month Howard Fineman, the 'Newsweek' reporter, and MSNBC contributor, wrote an article in which a column, in which he said that the establishment is now worried that Barack Obama is not up to the job. And he made clear that he was speaking on behalf of the establishment, as a member of it. And he said that the establishment, to the extent it exists in America, is now comprised of three stools. The financiers on Wall Street, political elites in Washington, and media stars in the New York/Washington corridor. And there's a 'Newsweek' cover story by Evan Thomas, who's a long time Washington insider reporter. And it's concerning Paul Krugman's status as a critic of Obama from the Left. And in this article Evan Thomas, I thought quite revealingly declared himself, as well, like Howard Fineman did, to be a member of the establishment persuasion, as he called it. And what he said was that, by definition, members of the establishment are devoted to preserving the existing order. The prevailing status quo. Keeping things the way they are." -- Glenn Greenwald (b. 1967-03-06), on the PBS television program Bill Moyers Journal, 2009-04-03
The following couple paragraphs by Greenwald and Amy Goodman make what the quoted passage says even clearer. Click on through ...