Friday, September 18, 2015

Two good James O’Brien interviews about Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the US, and the UK






(The second interview begins around the 7-minute mark.)

As Glenn Greenwald argues:
It’s so fun - and so easy - to highlight and protest the bad acts done by the countries declared to be the Bad Ones by your own government. It’s not quite as fun or easy to highlight and protest the bad acts done by your own government itself or its closest allies. Yet as O’Brien pointed out, journalism is far more valuable, and the public interest served far more, by doing the latter rather than the former.

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