Ethics

This is Why We Need Alternative Media

By Ed Brayton

The Detroit Free Press had an article on Monday about Sovereign Deed and the controversy over their plans for a base in Northern Michigan and it is a textbook example of why the Center for Independent Media's New Journalist project is important and needed. It's just a perfect microcosm of everything that is so often wrong with the mainstream media. The reporting is lazy, incurious, and misses some of the most important aspects of the controversy.

The whole point of the article is supposedly to look at the controversy over the company, their plans and the state and local government officials bending over backwards to get them there, yet it doesn't even mention the investigative work we did at the Michigan Messenger. It was that investigation that broke the whole situation open and prompted state and local officials to back off their support, yet he doesn't mention it.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 06, 2008 (boomark / email).