Jim Lobe Transcript Now Posted
The Echo Chamber documentary interview with Jim Lobe is now posted online here.
Lobe is the Washington Bureau Chief for Inter Press Service, and he has been following the neo-conservative movement for over 30 years. His writings became very popular after 9/11 and were picked up by many non-interventionist websites ranging from the Libertarian Lew Rockwell to Anti-War.com. IPS also has a compilation of Lobe's Neo-Con articles
Lobe provides many informed insights into the elite mainstream media.
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The issue is that mainstream journalism, as practiced within a certain political framework or cultural framework, in which some things can be said and some things cannot be said. Or some dots can be connected and other dots cannot be connected. And I -- working for essentially an international new agency -- have much greater freedom to connect dots. Whereas, I think people who work for the Times and the Post, particularly those because they are court newspapers, and as a result their relationship with people in power is a much more delicate kind of proposition. They cannot write things that may, on an individual basis, be pretty obvious to them after covering these people for a long period of time."
