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Now welcome to the award winning Best of the Left Podcast with Cups today from the Young

Turks, Counter-Spin, Citizen Radio on the media, Moyers & Company and the Majority Report.

If you haven't brushed up on your Orwell lately, this may be a good time.

Some of the country's leading journalists don't seem that interested in journalism that

they didn't break.

And while I am admittedly not as up in arms about NSA spying as some, I am 100% behind

Glenn Greenwald and the Washington Post breaking these stories.

They were important, critical stories for Americans to make up their mind about NSA spying.

And then you get a guy like Michael Kinzley and Michael Kinzley is a very important figure

in American journalism.

All both in television and in print.

Michael Kinzley over the last 25 years, here are some of the jobs that this guy has had.

And jobs both as a columnist and as an editorial decision maker at some of the places that I'm

about to name.

Crossfire on CNN.

First of all, the Harvard Crimson when he was in college.

Then Crossfire on CNN.

Slate, Time Magazine, the editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times.

This is a guy, the new republic, now he's a new republic in Vanity Fair.

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