Patriots and traitors: Some journalists falter in upholding watchdog role

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Patriots and traitors: Some journalists falter in upholding watchdog role of the press

Many journalists today are just plain un-American. Following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, some television news anchors wore U.S. flag pins on their lapels while failing to address increasing government secrecy and the whittling of our civil liberties.

Un-American.

This month 10 Florida journalists were fired because they accepted government pay to promote U.S. interests abroad, and last year a half-dozen journalists were exposed for producing covert propaganda targeted at Iraqis and Americans.
Un-American and traitorous.

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Those journalists did not serve you or me. They failed to uphold their duty to report objectively and serve as a check on government. It was their responsibility to serve as watchdogs, not lapdogs — a sacred American trust dating back more than 300 years.

This is a story of those traitors and patriots — of journalists who betray you and journalists who serve you.

http://www.azstarnet.com/opinion/147890.php

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1. Traitors, like patriots, will be known by their works for the truth is in

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