Press muzzled during war......duh!

[veracity]

USA Today article quotes top reporters about toeing the Bush line when reporting the war. Now isn't that special???

Haven't sites like http://TvNewsLies.org beem saying that all along? Isn't that why so many people supported the war?

Let's see if this story gets on CNN (Their Christiana Amanpur is one of the journalists making the admission.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/2003-09-14-media-mix_x.htm

[phillybri]

1. Hey, there's a shocker!

I think....:grr:

[Sticky]

3. Anyone see a CNBC show called TOPIC A?

Topic A with Tina Brown aired last week. Her guests were Al Franken, Christianne Amanpour and Victoria Clarke. Christianne said she was censored by CNN for doing run of the mill reporting.

Here are her comments:
Ms. AMANPOUR: Can I--can I just say--I have to say, I mean, having covered so many of these conflicts and having been at almost every US military intervention of the '90s and basically the last 14 years, and to be frank, having supported many of them, I am still very uneasy about this one and particularly the relationship between the media and the administration. I stood in Baghdad at the end of the war and did what I thought were perfectly routine reports about the looting that was going on and the various beginnings of--I mean, you could use the word chaos...

Mr. FRANKEN: Chaos.

Ms. AMANPOUR: ...others think that might be too strong, but the beginnings of that and the Secretary of Defense basically accused people like me of selectively editing, of misrepresenting the truth. If you remember, there was a--a famous quote of his, "Oh, that same old vase..."

Full Transcript here:
http://www.alfrankenweb.com/topicatina.html

[shirlden]

2. Here is my e-mail to Briganti

"Given the choice, it's better to be viewed as a foot soldier for Bush than a spokeswoman for al-Qaeda." (Irena Briganti)


Does Faux News really have a choice ?
All foot soldiers are in Iraq or serving in other areas.
News people should not be spokespeople, they should be truth tellers.
This is why only 4 million people watch Faux News.
The new slogan fits, so wear it. The "wholly without merit" news source.


[e-mail]

Go make her day, Duers

:kick:

[Soloflecks]

4. So that's the way it's going to be from now on?

Instead of being reporters they're going to be govt mouthpieces and then when the shit starts to fly, they're going to whine about how they were forced to lay down for the assholes?! Why don't they stand up for truth when at the time it needs to be told?

[rock]

5. Well, the press was 'in bed' with our misAdministration

Double Duh

[glarius]

6. I saw Dan Rather interviewed a few weeks ago on one of our networks

in Canada...He was asked by the reporter whether he and the U.S.A. journalists were doing an honest job of reporting the facts in Iraq....I don't have his exact words but he actually came out and said "I may be a journalist, but I'm an American first!"...Then he went on to say "I try to not let my personal feelings interfere". This sort of sums up the journalistic integrity of most of the reporters over there IMO....

[gratuitous]

8. Don't let personal feelings interfere there, Dan

Not to mention things like facts or reality. Just keep reporting it the way the corrupt Bush administration says it. I mean, who do you think is a more reliable conveyor of the truth, the Bushistas and their retainers, or your lying eyes?

[mandyky]

7. The press/media has been muzzled since 9-11

Otherwise dumbya would have been forced to give more press conferences and be more answerable to the people. The press and media are merely reading WH press releases and trying to dress up the non-answers the WH press secretary gives.

[pretzel4gore]

9. it didn't just happen...

it was planned and carried off great public expense...which makes it morally hideous ie corruption