AP has pulled all the coverage of Gore's speech

[kainah]

I am stunned. I went looking for coverage of Gore's speech through Google News. On the first page, there are links to lots of TV stations with this superficial, silly story:

http://www.ktvotv3.com/Global/story.asp?S=1393054

On pages 2-3 of the search are all the newspaper articles.

http://news.google.com/news?q=gore+New+York+University&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&newwindow=1&edition=us&scoring=d&start=10&sa=N&filter=0

Title of the article "Gore Assails Bush Policies in US, Iraq" Click on ANY of those MANY newspaper articles and you'll get a 404 error. The story has been pulled all across the country.

I read it on an Idaho newspaper site and it was a fair report of his speech. But when I was almost done reading it, the page automatically reloaded and *poof*, story's gone. It didn't happen. Gore didn't speak. Don't tell the children.

:grr: :tinfoilhat: :grr:

[Newsjock]

1. AP story is still here

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20030807_2347.html

And there's nothing on the actual AP wire saying the story should be killed or anything like that.

[LuminousX]

3. Uhmmm

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20030807_2347.html
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/6480076.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31040-2003Aug7.html

[kainah]

4. I just found it also, obviously

If there is nothing saying it should be pulled, why are there all those 404 errors???? Go to the 2nd or 3rd page of a google search on Gore and click on the cross-country newspaper links that kick up. You'll see what I mean. I thought maybe it was being rewritten but nothing new seems to be showing up.

[LuminousX]

6. How Would I Explain It?

I don't. The speech is up on every site I go to.

correction: some smaller newspapers have seemed to have moved the story from their ap headline section

[SoCalDem]

8. AP links are unreliable.. They change all the time

as the "story" moves in regard to the newer ones, the links are changed..

If you get the story from the paper that took it from AP, the link is usually good :)

[kainah]

10. Yes, and that's what I'm saying

When you do a google news search & find the link on all of the little newspapers all across the country where this was posted, and you click on the links to those papers, the links take you to 404 errors. Almost every night, I will check google news on a certain topic to see how the story will be playing in the wire service papers across the country the next day. So this is a regular routine and what is happening tonight with this Gore story has never happened to me before. The wire story can be found everywhere; tonight, instead, you find 404 errors everywhere.

[kainah]

2. At the moment, the original story is still on ABC News

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20030807_2347.html

How long will it last?

[whirlygigspin]

5. no surprise there

What gets me is that the general public doesn't react
to all this manipulation garbage.

it's all a bit to Soviet-like for my taste.

[AngryYoungMan]

7. Chill!

They rearranged their database or something. Nothing got "pulled." Everything's still there.

[Jackson4Gore]

9. Nothing is gone.

If it were, we would know first and would be on it. We have the AP story on our site along with the video! :)

http://www.algoresupportcenter.com/

[GreatAuntK]

11. Political responses to the speech

None of the pundits seem to be t a k i n g o n or
d i s p u t i n g the statements in the speech, no argument against the accusations, just inference to politics, candidacy, etc. Maybe he just cares about our country and the future for our children?

I surely do. Why not Al Gore?

[berry]

13. Sure, the news is out there, for those motivated to look for it.

But it IS disturbing that it's gone within an hour of posting from so many of the small-town papers--THE news source for lots of people.
(Well--it IS getting some TV play, so maybe it's not so bad.) But I do trust Kainah on this--about knowing that it never happens this way.

[berry]

12. Wow--you're right.

It did come up on the Washington Post, Mpls Star-Trib, San Jose Mercury, and of course on the Guardian and Aussie sites.

BUT it's been pulled from all the small-town papers, it seems. Is this a good time to ask who owns them? Are they all part of a chain? This is TRULY disturbing. Not everyone gets a major paper or is on the web. These small papers are important!

Should we email some big-name columnists about this? There's been a lot of talk recently about radio and tv media concentration, but I haven't heard much about what's been happening to small-town newspapers across the country....

[grasswire]

14. contact FAIR maybe

at http://www.fair.org

[caribmon]

15. I don't think it's AP

But I do find it strange the story has been wiped off so many websites that I checked myself. It's hard to imagine all those webmasters beinng told to get rid of the story though.

I don't know. This is weird.

Gore camp doesn't seem bothered by it. I don't think they bothered to look though.

[peabody71]

16. Wash. Post has good article.

Not glaring at you but it's on the front page.

[nolabels]

17. Some how this does not suprise me, maybe that's the deal for Al

Maybe this the reason he pulled out of the thing, they gave him an ultimatum and we have just seen how its delivered

Any body ever hear the story of how several guys in skull & bones are hooked up with Media outlets and some running them, not that this is gospell but if some of it was true, what if, some of them names on the side bar looked interesting, but others looked bogus ???

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8425/CIAPRESS.HTM
Other pages on the risephoenix site about ruling class organizations:

Trilateral Commission | Skull and Bones | Council on Foreign Relations & Trilateral Commission

And there is more on the way! Send me links and articles.



From NameBase NewsLine, No. 17, April-June 1997:

Journalism and the CIA: The Mighty Wurlitzer
by Daniel Brandt, used with permission

footnotes

Sidebar: Journalists at Work: Who's Watching the Watchdogs?



A note from risephoenix: I'm happy to reproduce another excellent article here by Daniel Brandt. I've added a few notes to it as well as some hyperlinks to help the reader's ability to cross-reference and to see the dense thicket of interlocks that serves the ruling class and its media. The interconnections that I've added - to organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, and Skull and Bones - is revealing; but the information remains very incomplete. I hope to fill it out in time with more thorough information. If you have it e-mail it to me. Stay tuned, as the media saying goes. . .

Journalism and the CIA: The Mighty Wurlitzer
Alongside those Greek morality plays and Biblical injunctions, we are also reminded by history itself that the use of unethical means to achieve a worthy end can be self-destructive. Power, by definition, is isolated from the correcting signals of external criticism. Or perhaps the feeling of fighting evil fits so comfortably, that it's difficult to shed even after objective circumstances change.

The history of U.S. intelligence since World War II follows both patterns. The Office of Strategic Services, the CIA's predecessor, had jurisdiction over wartime covert operations and propaganda in the fight against fascism. OSS chief William Donovan recruited heavily among social and academic elites. When the CIA was launched in 1947 at the beginning of the Cold War, these pioneers felt that they had both the right and the duty to secretly manipulate the masses for the greater good.

(snip)

[joanski01]

18. You are right.

I checked my newspaper this morning in Southwestern PA, and not one word was mentioned about the Gore speech. I just sent an e-mail off to the News Editor asking why. Let's see if I get a reply.