Despite the use of words like "state-monopoly control," "ideological
coercion," and "domestic government propaganda," Petrusenko tells the story
in some detail with names, places, and events, and draws almost exclusively
on accepted U.S. sources. From his 1976 perspective, he welcomes the
"muckraking" that began with Ramparts magazine and the 1960s alternative
press, and continued with Ralph Nader and then with reporting on Watergate.
But Petrusenko was too optimistic too soon. Within several years everything
shifted back: Carter launched the second Cold War with a defense buildup,
and then Reagan finished it. By 1993 the alternative press in the U.S. was
nonexistent, and U.S. media were more centralized than they had ever been in
the past. After a brief flurry of Iran-contra pack journalism and George
Bush bashing, the term "investigative reporter" finally became an oxymoron.
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