November 28, 2007

Robert Parry

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Robert Parry is a former mainstream media investigative reporter who founded ConsortiumNews.com because he is interested in making sure that the truth is known, not buried.

Despite the lack of large-scale funding, with the help of his sons, he has managed to maintain an extremely informative Web site, ConsortiumNews.com, up and running since 1995.

Parry describes the mission of his online journalism this way:

Indeed, a founding idea of the Consortium for Independent Journalism was that a major investment was needed in journalistic endeavors committed to honestly informing the American people about important events, no matter what the political and economic pressures.

While we are proud of the journalistic contribution that this Web site has made over the past decade -- and while we are deeply grateful to our readers whose contributions have kept us afloat -- we also must admit that we have not made the case well enough that this mission is a vital one.

Despite all that's happened, including the ongoing disaster in Iraq, many people still don't understand that the fight for honest information is a battle for the future of American democracy.
A former Associated Press reporter who did trailblazing reporting on Iran-Contra, among other stories, Parry is a journalist who could no longer tolerate the self-censorship of the modern corporate media.

He has taken a financial risk to bring investigative journalism to the Internet, without charging a subscription fee to readers.

It takes courage to battle for enlightened public discourse by providing in-depth stories that don't pull any punches.

For that commitment, Robert Parry deserves this week's BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award.

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Nominated by Julie Otto of Fort Lee, NJ.


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