WEB EXCLUSIVE!

I interviewed Al Jazeera correspondent Josh Rushing this week, and we just put it up on the online — the Q&A will also appear in tomorrow’s print newspaper. Rushing will be in Burlington tonight and tomorrow talking to Vermonters about Al Jazeera English.

Anyone who’s seen the 2004 documentary Control Room will recognize Rushing as the refreshingly honest former Pentagon spokesperson during the 2003 Iraq invasion.

Click here for the interview.

This article appears in Jun 11-17, 2008.

Staff Writer Ken Picard is a senior staff writer at Seven Days. A Long Island, N.Y., native who moved to Vermont from Missoula, Mont., he was hired in 2002 as Seven Days’ first staff writer, to help create a news department. Ken has since won numerous regional and national awards for his features, profiles and investigative stories and had his work picked up by international news outlets. He was the first journalist to shine a light on the thousands of undocumented workers in Vermont’s dairy...