Daveed Gartenstein-Ross has a fascinating piece about sycophantic journalists during the bad-old days in Iraq under Sadaam Hussein — and especially his late, unlamented son Uday. This link has a short summary post plus links to read the whole piece.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.