Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair are both veteran journalists and authors doing the kind of muckraking political and other investigative writing only found in the US online and in out-of-the-mainstream publications and political newsletters like the one they co-publish and edit – CounterPunch with its counterpart web site of the same name. 

 

Cockburn is also a regular columnist with The Nation magazine, and his writings appear regularly in the New York Free Press and Los Angeles Times.  He formerly wrote extensively for numerous other publications as well including the Wall Street Journal’s far right editorial page oddly in the 1980s when its late editor Bob Bartley decided to have an alternate point of view and certainly got an exceptional one the mirror opposite of the array of extremist hard right contributors he allowed regular space to all the time as does his successor today.  Cockburn’s also authored, co-authored and co-edited 18 books, the latest one being “End Times – The Death of the Fourth Estate,” along with co-author St. Clair, and subject of this review. 

 

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