VTJPers, I'm sure many of you know Jerry Colby and Charlotte Dennet, longtime crusading, investigative journalists from Burlington. A paperback edition of their book, INTO THE BUZZ SAW: LEADING JOURNALISTS EXPOSE THE MYTH OF A FREE PRESS, has just come out, including a new essay by Charlotte, "The War on Terror and the Great Game for Oil", which is most pertinant to our middle east concerns. Here's the Library Journal review: "The first edition of this book (LJ 3/1/02) appeared during the early months of the Bush administration's war on terror. Since then, the climate for investigative journalism has only become more repressive. This updated edition, which adds about 80 pages of new material, begins with a BBC interview in which Dan Rather admits that, to avoid appearing unpatriotic, he has refrained from questioning government policy. In the other new chapters, Charles Reina exposes the political pedigree of Fox News Channel, Ashleigh Banfield describes the obstacles to covering the Iraq war, and Charlotte Dennett reveals the "Great Game for Oil" underlying the war on terror. Borjesson, an award-winning investigative reporter, began collecting stories of government and corporate censorship after her own horrific experience while investigating the crash of TWA Flight 800. She hopes that journalists, policymakers, and the public will be sufficiently alarmed by these candid accounts to begin building "the nation's first independent mass media network." Highly recommended for all journalism collections You might want to take a look at this. Marc
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