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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 09:51 AM
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Other than Ted Rall and Molly Ivins,
what current "journalists" and pundits don't suck?

How much of a voice do they have?

Are they mainstream, easy to find, or does one have to be pretty diligent to search them out?

What about non-US sources that are fair and reliable?
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 09:53 AM
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1. A few
Krugman, Alterman, Helen Thomas, Bill Press
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 09:58 AM
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5. good list
Krugman is great.

I wish we had 50 Altermans.

Bill Press has impressed me more and more lately. I used to find him to be a little to Alan Colmes-ish, but I was wrong. It helps that Buchanan (who is wrong about almost everything) is at least a principled conservative.

Helen has been a pillar in the White House press corps, but you have to be a press conference junkie to realize that.
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dennis4868 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:04 AM
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8. Press
sucked last night on his show....he was justifying the war for Bush.
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:26 AM
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13. From what I read, it was more that he was backing up Nachman
Who is recovering from being very ill. Press has been totally against the war before last night.

You gotta understand that Press came into politics studying for the Priesthood (IIRC), so there was probably a bit of charity for Nachman involved last night.
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 09:53 AM
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2. The Krug-Man
Paul Krugman, twice a week on the NY Times op-ed page.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:57 AM
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18. yep, he should have been in my subject line
his columns are simply outstanding.
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MnAtty Donating Member (22 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 09:54 AM
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3. Kristof and Dionne
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 09:56 AM
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4. Jim Hightower.
www.jimhightower.com
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:58 AM
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19. yep Hightower and Ivins
along with Austin, the two best reasons I can think of not to kick Texas out of the Union.


Okay! Okay! I'm just kidding! I'm not trying to start a Texas bashing thread.
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demnan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:01 AM
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6. Occasionally Richard Cohen is ok
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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:03 AM
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7. Don't forget Greg Palast!
n/t
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AntiLempa Donating Member (736 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:09 AM
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9. A few
Mark Weisbrot (http://www.cepr.net), the staff of In These Times (http://www.inthesetimes.com), and the Progressive (http://www.progressive.org)
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 11:16 AM
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25. thanks.
definitely worth checking out.
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GainesT1958 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:11 AM
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10. Anthony Lewis...
Is pretty great. Though Dave Barry is especially good for a great laugh, he also knows how to "tell it like it is" when needed. And Russell Baker the same. Along with the folks afore-mentioned in this thread, of course!:D

In addition to all of her OTHER redeeming qualities, Molly Ivins also knows Dub like no other nationally-syndicated columnist by virtue of where she's from, making her observations of his idiosyncracies ESPECIALLY juicy! :7

B-)
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LuCifer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:23 AM
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11. still more!
Carl Hiaasen www.CarlHiaasen.com
Mauren Dowd (sic?)

Uhhhh, damnit Beavis, I like, can't uh, think today and stuff!

Yeah, thinking sucks! If I uh, huh huh huh huh huh huh huh wanted to do that and stuff, I'd like, go to school! Huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh!!!!!

Lu
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 11:14 AM
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23. I'm a big fan of Hiassen's mystery novels too
I'll have to add his site to my surfing list.
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:25 AM
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12. Bill Moyers...Jon Stewart
The list is quite short.
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:27 AM
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14. Moford
And some guy called William Rivers Pitt, but I've never read his stuff. ;-)
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Sticky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:45 AM
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15. These are the authors I read >
Scroll to the bottom of the page and they're listed in alphabetical order.

Some days I spend way too much time here!

http://www.bigeye.com/selections.htm

Hehe
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 11:17 AM
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26. thanks!
will check it out.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 11:15 AM
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24. Will is the one.
He belongs at the top of the list.

But we all KNOW that!

(and don't tell him we said so)
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never cry wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:52 AM
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16. someone you may have heard about
named will pitt. unfortunately not main stream tho.
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HootieMcBoob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:52 AM
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17. Add Joe Conason to that list
:)
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HFishbine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 11:02 AM
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20. Leonard Pitts
More social than political, but usually insightful and right on.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 11:02 AM
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21. Man you guys are good! DU rocks.
Palast, Conason and Moyers have been pillars of rational discourse through some very dark times.

I'd also add the Parry's at consortiumnews. I think Robert Parry's Lost History is a great expose of the foundations of the mess we're in now.
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GabysPoppy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 11:07 AM
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22. Add Michael Tomasky to your list
Edited on Wed Aug-20-03 11:07 AM by GabysPoppy
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