Reliable Sources: Claudia Rosett

As usual, the Blogfather gets it right:

Rosett's attachment to the cause of the oppressed and the enslaved has already won her international acclaim among human rights activists, and her dogged pursuit of the oil-for-food-for-dictators scandals at the United Nations pushed that story in all of its mind-numbing complexity into the media mainstream, where it has done more to set in motion long overdue oversight of the United Nations than all of the previous blue ribbon reports and congressional hearings combined. She dug. She reported. And she did it long before it became fashionable to push Kofi to answer tough questions.

Rosett is the journalist-in-residence at the Foundation for the
Defense of Democracies, and a columnist for OpinionJournal.com, as well as a contributor to many other outlets. Her biography demonstrates that she is a reporter's reporter, but it is her passion for those who have no voice and no free press that sets her apart from the pack.

Rosett covers the despots of North Korea and the Middle East as well as the crooked sermon-givers at the United Nations. She follows the dissidents who are behind bars in many countries, and never lets up trying to bring light into dark dungeons. This week she reported from downtown Beirut, just as she had reported from Beijing in 1989 as Tiananmen Square became code for brutal repression.

Bloggers and Internet columnists often find easy marks in the ranks of old media, so they ought to pause and hold up for admiration and emulation those who do the job that a free press was intended to do. Claudia Rosett is as "old media" as they get, and the single best advertisement for what journalism can be when practiced with skill and passion.

Her largest contribution to date has been the deep dive coverage of the Oil-for-Food scam at the UN---for this alone she would have earned an honored place in our Reliable Sources list. But she has also been a determined opponent of the nonsense tyrants spew and the MSM gobbles up greedily at face value to fill column inches and knock America.

Any way you measure it, Claudia Rosett is a Reliable Source.