The Wisconsin Break

Listen in while I use the phone to track down the journalists I admire and respect;

Robert Parry of Consortium News who is traveling aliong the east coast this weekend.  Parry worked for various news organizations including the Associated Press and broke man of the stories about the Iran-Contra scandals.  He and his sons pioneered in 1995 the first "independent investigative" web site.  It remains one of the most distinguished, and for us in North Jefferson County, Ks., important web sites for news analysis and great writers.

Dave Lindorff and Charles M. Young of the This Can't Be Happening news collective, both in the New York area for the weekend.  This Can't Be Happening started as a blog for Lindorff, a two time Fullbright Scholar and world traveler who has written for many brick and mortar publications including Business Week.  In the last two years TCBH has turned into an award winning news collective of long time friends and writers with a particularly fierce independent analysis.  Founding members of the collective are: Dave Lindorff, Charles M. Young, John Grant and Linn Washington, Jr.

This is an informal conversation beginning with the events in Wisconsin and may go anywhere, depending on the current work each of the men decide to discuss.