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Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2008—He Spoke for the Mountains:
It's easy to spot lazy, inaccurate performances in the national media. A fairly significant part of what takes place here is spotlighting those times when some millionaire talking head uses the airwaves of the television networks or the pages of some internationally-known newspaper to practice sloppy stenography in place of news.
That doesn't mean there aren't still a lot of good journalists out there. We're still blessed with many hard-working, tough-minded reporters and editors who are more interested in finding the truth than in repeating press releases. Unfortunately, today we have one less.
Tom Gish bought the Mountain Eagle of Whitesburg, Kentucky in 1956. Up until then, the Mountain Eagle was an innocuous local weekly that rarely ruffled a feather. Under Gish and his wife, Pat, the paper's motto changed to "It Screams." And it did.
The Mountain Eagle screamed out against corruption in Kentucky politics, against the excesses of coal mine operators, against police who abused their power, against mistreatment of workers, and against destruction of the land. Gish used his paper like a hammer, and he didn't care whose political fingers he smashed as he pounded out the truth. It didn't matter if you were a local school board member, or the president of a giant corporation. The Gish's would not back down.
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On
today's Kagro in the Morning show, it's Pre-Thanksgiving with
Greg Dworkin,
Joan McCarter and
Armando. Greg rounded up the day's ACA news & polling. Twitter's buzzing about the Hobby Lobby case. Armando and Joan both weigh in on this one, and wrap up on the story of netroots involvement in the filibuster reform fight, including the critical role of the
Daily Kos Campaigns team. Joan previews the T-Day period on the front page, including the upcoming holiday labor actions. A look back at a forgotten 2005 Republican proposal for a "mini-nuke" that purported to erase its own tracks. But can that sort of thing really be erased? Depends who you ask, and when!
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