Christoph
07-07-07, 00:35
The Cracks in Cheney's World
By GARY LEUPP
The recent four-part series about Vice President Dick Cheney in the Washington Post, by Barton Gellman and Jo Becker is, I think, of great significance. Much of its content will be familiar to the sort of person who reads Counterpunch regularly, but this is high-profile mainstream corporate journalism. For this series to appear where it does indicates how deeply the power elite itself has become divided over the direction of the country, with some in powerful positions within the Fifth Estate deciding it's no longer necessary or useful to defer so abjectly to the administration....
http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp07062007.html
By GARY LEUPP
The recent four-part series about Vice President Dick Cheney in the Washington Post, by Barton Gellman and Jo Becker is, I think, of great significance. Much of its content will be familiar to the sort of person who reads Counterpunch regularly, but this is high-profile mainstream corporate journalism. For this series to appear where it does indicates how deeply the power elite itself has become divided over the direction of the country, with some in powerful positions within the Fifth Estate deciding it's no longer necessary or useful to defer so abjectly to the administration....
http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp07062007.html