Norman Solomon on Mass. election, Glenn Greenwald on anonymous sources

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DATE : Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:00:00 +0100
Entered in Database : 2010-01-22 05:00:00
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This week on CounterSpin: Corporate media chatter about the Republican Senate victory in Massachusetts reflects participants’ priorities: which means you're unlikely to hear advice offered to Democrats other than that they should act more like Republicans. Is that the takeaway? We'll get another angle from journalist and activist Norman Solomon. Also on the show: Anonymous news sources are a journalistic scourge, abetting some of the worst policies of our times, and allowing the powerful to escape accountability. But are they simply an occasional problem in reporting, or central to the way corporate journalism operates? We'll talk to Salon's Glenn Greenwald about his report on the subject, The Fundamental Unreliability of America’s Media.