The best of the Deepwater Horizon information comes from... journalists. The investigations into torture in Iraq came from... journalists. The exposure of many of Rio Tinto's worst mining practices... journalists. I could go on almost indefinitely.
Thank you.
Sure, why not ruin a potentially interesting thread in history and culture that I could have actually learned something new from with a rehash of the discussion on intellectuals?
I get similarly frustrated. I apologize if I contributed to the derailment of this thread.
The journalists who helped inspire me to identify myself as a 'revolutionary opponent' of this society were:
* The Daily Telegraph's Colin Welch - his impartial reportage of the 'No Housing, No Crowning' Amsterdam squatters' protests against Queen Beatrice's (or was it Juliana's?) coronation in 1980(?) went as far as cheering on and justifying the conspicuously over-the-top police violence.
* The Daily Mail's assorted hacks who reported the Persons Unknown Trial of 1979, particularly Judge Alan King Hamilton's summing up when he lambasted the jury who had acquitted most of the defendants.
Never underestimate the revolutionary potential of reactionary journalists.