Pulitzer winner Laurie Garrett blasts media, quits today

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Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:21:44 -0800 (PST)

 

 

Pulitzer winner Laurie Garrett blasts media, quits today

 

 

 

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/3/8/122614/6166

 

Pulitzer winner Laurie Garrett blasts media, quits today

 

 

 

Tue Mar 8th, 2005 at 09:26:14 PST

 

 

 

" What we're watching die is not just people but entire cultures. This

is a far more dramatic holocaust than anything we have seen in

hundreds of years. "

 

I can't count the times I've hung onto the words of Laurie Garrett,

http://www.lauriegarrett.com/index_home.html

so important are her words for humanity. Garrett snapped me to

attention with the " BETRAYAL OF TRUST:

http://www.lauriegarrett.com/index_betrayal.html

The Collapse of Global Public Health, " " The Coming Plague, "

http://www.lauriegarrett.com/index_coming.html

countless articles and TV appearances.

 

Today, as Laurie Garrett leaves Newsday, she blasts big media names:

 

* NYT reporter " Judy Miller's bogus weapons of mass destruction

coverage, " acting as a " conduit for the Department of Defense for

weapons of mass destruction disinformation "

* the " media's inaccurate and inappropriate convictions of Wen Ho

Lee, Richard Jewell and Steven Hatfill " and " an investigative

reporting team [unnamed] that relied on a single source for a series

that smeared the life of an innocent man "

* " CBS' failure to smell a con job regarding Bush's Texas Air

Guard career "

* the New York Times' " fostering [of] a Jayson Blair "

* " a bozo who accepted $250,000 from the Bush Administration to

write flattering stories "