FINAL EOTO David Broder

David Broder 

Journalism’s Modern Heroes 

David Broder was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois in 1929. Upon receiving his M.A. in political science from the University of Chicago, he served in the army for 2 years. In 1953, he started working for The Daily Pantograph in Bloomington, Illinois.

Since then he has succeeded at many well known establishments, including Congressional Quarterly, the Washington Star, and the New York Times  

Most of his career was spent with the Washington Post where he began working in 1966

Significance 

David Broder is known in high regard as one of the best political journalists to date. He has an immense list of achievements and awards, too many to name in fact. One in particular to mention however, is the prestigious Politzer Prize.

Broder has covered every national campaign and convention since 1960, so over 4 decades. Each year of his career, he traveled at least 100,000 miles to interview voters and report on candidates. He is the author and co author of 6 books and was a regular commentator on CNN’s “Inside Politics.” He also made regular appearances on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and “Washington Week in Review.”

 

Wiki Leaks Video

 Collateral Murder

In only 40 minutes, a patriotic pro military American can swiftly be awakened. Watching a dozen men get murdered in cold blood is the topic for this blog post. Watch the video linked below to further witness the collateral murder.  

Julian Assange is the Australian “whistleblower” who was responsible in bringing justice to the Wikileaks video of collateral murder in Iraq. 

What an incredible display of disdain and cowardry in murdering innocent men with cameras, that the particular individuals “thought” were weapons. 

It’s truly amazing how this video, that we watched in class, can be so powerful and threaten the government so much that they feel the need to torture Assange to death oversees for exposing wrongdoing. He has done absolutely nothing illegal and owes our government no loyalty, as he isn’t even from America. 

This isn’t the first whistleblower to be treated absolutely horrible for no rhyme or reason and unfortunately won’t be the last. Governments lie. 

 Good Night, and Good Luck 

This black and white movie from 2005 highlights media responsibility and portrays backlash when a differing opinion from the government is brought to light. 

Set in the 1950’s and focused on taking down one of the most controversial senators (Joseph McCarthy) in American history is the main focus of this film.

It’s clear from George Clooney’s involvement in the film, that this is quite a passion project.