One of my heroes, investigative journalist Greg Palast will be testifying today before the US Civil Rights Commission to discuss his continuing investigative reports for BBC Television on Florida and other states' cleansing of black voters from voter rolls.
If you didn't know, it was Palast's reporting and investigations that brought the Florida voting scandal to the press. The BBC ran with the story while US media paid little attention to Palast's work. Meanwhile Michael Moore regurgitated Palast's work in his book, "Stupid White Men," and Moore again relied heavily on Palast's reporting on the vote fix in Florida in his film, "Fahrenheit 9/11." (...more)
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