So let me get this right: we have the 21st century equivalent of the Secret Watergate tapes...

[originalpckelly]

and yet no one is talking about it much on the TV.

What the fuck?

I know Waxman has told RNC/SMARTECH to preserve the info, but what the hell is the media doing not talking about it?

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Even in the 70s, The Gap Was Not Discussed THAT Much

How much can you say about something that's not there? Which is why it's not there...

[originalpckelly]

2. I don't think that's the issue...

we know there is a secret e-mail system, we know from the Abramoff e-mails that it was intentionally used to avoid accountability, what else is there?

[Bitwit1234]

3. Anna Nicole Smith's Baby's DNA now.

That's seems to be more important than the level of corruption in the bush white house and the administration....that's the MSM for you.

[originalpckelly]

4. OIC.

(shakes head)

[WinkyDink]

5. I beg to differ. It made the cover of TIME magazine.

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19731210,00.html

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,908267,00.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_tapes#Rose_Mary_Woods

[MannyGoldstein]

12. So Much For My Memory... n/t

[Richard Steele]

6. Nixon's buddies hadn't spent 30 years establishing almost total control of the US Media.

That's the difference.

[WinkyDink]

7. I just said this exact thing to my husband---THE difference is the media.

I don't recall Cronkite or Rather (of course!) chortling over any of Nixon's doings. Quite the contrary. And the TV news really DID show images of the VietNam War, unlike the phantom images Bushco SAYS we see.

And Nixon, to our knowledge, never sanctioned torture and never outed a covert operative.

[DaveT]

8. Forget the mainstream media.

The only way to beat them is to ignore them. In point of fact, fewer and fewer people watch TV network news, and the national print platforms are all in decline as well.

Worrying about what crap the corporations want to put out is not just a waste of energy -- it is a surrender of power. If you believe in your heart that something isn't real or significant unless the Corporate Media says so, you are giving away your birthright as an American Citizen to participate in self government. What we, the people, say and think matters, even if the guys who own the TV stations don't care to put it on the air.



A powerful myth grew up after Watergate about how Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford nailed Tricky Dick. It was an exaggerated and self congratulatory narrative that the media told about itself.

The far more significant players in breaking open the Watergate scandal were Judge Sirica, Sam Ervin, Tip O'Neill, Archibald Cox, Leon Jaworkski, Peter Rodino and a dimly remembered phalanx of lawyers working for the Senate Select Committee, the House Judiciary Committee and the Special Prosecutor's office.

The Corporate Media were not nearly as ludicrous in their slant in those days as they are today in the Post Telecommunications Act universe, but almost all the pundits sneered at the "crazies" who thought that they were going to impeach Nixon -- right up until the Supreme Court ordered the production of the infamous tapes.

Forget the corporate media. They have less influence today than they had yesterday. And they will be weaker still tomorrow. Do your part and tell all your friends that you don't pay any attention to Network News, the NYTimes, the WashPost, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report -- and least and last, the Fox News Channel.

There are a near infinity of independent sources of information. Use them.

[grasswire]

9. good post, thanks

Realistic and thoughtful too.

[Kurovski]

10. Terrifically good post.

And inspiring. Thank you.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

11. We are so much more empowered, now. Our protests are ignored BUT,...

,...our power to pass on knowledge is unleashed and the corporate "messen-geers" can't do a damned thing about,...for now.