by Buzzflash [ Editor’s Note: Greg Palast is a muckraker in the old context, the kind we use to see in the big city news rooms before those publications had the kibosh put on them via loss of advertising by major companies. This trend was eventually traced back to the advice of people friendly with a small country in the Mid East, the ad agencies that handled the major accounts. The threat of losing an account like General Motors had instant effect. Georgia, and the Atlanta metro area had built itself up quite a reputation as a modern progressive city. While I was living there in the mid 80’s, it had become the mecca for rising black professionals.