In April, 2000 writer/journalist Al Giordano launched the Narco News Bulletin and posited that "if the American public was poorly informed about the drug war in Central and South America, it was because the public was burdened with a poorly informing US media." In 2002 He founded the School of Authentic Journalism. Authentic journalism, he describes, is unadulterated by money and characterized by "a clear vision, a vision consistent with an authentically democratic society".Giordano was testifying before congress against Nuclear Power when he was 16. As a young activist he was arrested over 20 times. He brought about the first ever shut down of an operating nuclear power plant in America. I bought Steal This Book, by Abbie Hoffman, this summer and saw that Giordano wrote the forward. The two were friends before Hoffman's death, and Hoffman described him as "the best political organizer of his generation." He writes for Huffington Post and Daily Kos, and Narco News where he has created participatory journalism. Go here and see what I mean. He is a revolutionary and he makes himself readily available to anyone who seeks authenticity as contrasted by corrupted, tired and worn out journalism.
