The birth of so many great journalists at the turn of the 20th century was the effect of a perfect storm. There was an incredible increase of population, a ton of newspapers popping up looking for writers, and corruption just about everywhere you looked. President Theodore Roosevelt is the person that provided our language a term for a digging and discovering reporter. These reporters wrote themselves to glorified status of independent achievement. In 2011 we do not have anything like that. Amy Goodman, anchor for Democracy Now, is a true muckraker and independent reporter but she is not glorified to the level that these early reporter were. As a nation we need to demand the truth and require it be delivered over a popular public airway and not an internet stream broadcast.
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| Amy Goodman, an independent reporter |
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