Ken Silverstein

“	Undercover reporting was long an accepted practice in American journalism, but in recent years it has largely fallen out of favour. The decline can be traced in part to the transformation of journalism from a profession for cynical, underpaid gumshoe reporters into...a highbrow occupation for opinion-mongers, Sunday talk show yakkers and social climbers. As punditry has replaced muckraking as the profession's highest calling, undercover reporting has been abandoned as too embarrassing and undignified.	”
—Ken Silverstein, 2008[1]

Ken Silverstein is an American editor covering the Washington bureau for Harper's Magazine. In addition to contributing to the print edition of Harper's Magazine, Silverstein publishes a weblog entitled "Washington Babylon" on the magazine's website. He resides in Washington, D.C.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Bibliography 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Biography

Silverstein worked for the Los Angeles Times as an investigative reporter, for The Associated Press in Brazil, and has written for Mother Jones, Washington Monthly, The Nation, Slate, and Salon.^[2]

Silverstein is a self-described "gadfly" in the newspaper business, and an opponent of what he considers "false 'balance'" in the news media.^[3]

In 1993, Silverstein started CounterPunch, a political newsletter. Silverstein left the publication in 1996.

He drew attention in 2007 for a report in which he went undercover as an investment group with business interests in Turkmenistan, raising questions about journalistic ethics. Silverstein said that he could not have exposed the willingness of the companies to work with a Stalinist dictatorship using conventional journalism methods.^[4][5][6]

[edit] Bibliography

He is the author of a number of books, including:

• Washington Babylon, Verso Books, 1996 (co-authored with Alexander Cockburn)
• Private Warriors, Verso Books, 2000
• Washington on $10 Million A Day: How Lobbyists Plunder the Nation, Common Courage Press, 2002
• The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor, Random House, 2004
• Turkmeniscam: How Washington Lobbyists Fought to Flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship, Random House, 2008

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Washington Babylon, the blog of Ken Silverstein
• Ken Silverstein: Arizona is Laboratory for Radical GOP Policies - video report by Democracy Now!

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