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Old February 18th 05, 03:07 PM
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Wanted: An Investigative Reporter to Break Open the Explosive Story of
a Mainstream Press that Betrays America

The White House apologist mainstream press corps is now flagellating
the Internet blogs and news services, such as BuzzFlash, claiming that
writers on the net are fast with the truth.

What the reality is is this: sites like BuzzFlash.com are fast, fast
in telling the truth. The New York Times and Washington Post are so
interested in protecting the status quo that they are now the tail end
of breaking White House scandal stories, rather than breaking them.
They can lay claim to be 12th and 13th to publishing hot news stories,
two weeks after they've hit the Internet.

You've got White House protectors like Howard Kurtz, who is laughably
called a media reporter for the Post. If Kurtz saw Karl Rove drop
Howard Dean's body over the White House fence, he'd call his good
buddy, Scottie McClellan, the White House Press Secretary, and ask him
what happened.

Scottie, 'ol chap, would tell Howard that it was only Karl tossing out
an old rug. Kurtz would tell him, "good to go," and the story next day
in the style section of the Post would be, "I called Scottie McClellan
and he assured me that Karl Rove was doing some late evening cleaning
of his office and decided to throw out an old rug himself. That's all
it amounts to." Oh, yeah, and on page A16 of the Post, there would be
a small article, below an add for Filene's Bargain Basement, "DNC
Chair Howard Dean Reported Missing."

The layer of editors at the Post only ensures that no story will end
up in the news section that will bring down Rove's wrath. That's the
definition of "truth" in contemporary Washington journalism. The
recent Wolf Blitzer-Howard Kurtz CNN program blowing off of the
Gannon/Guckert scandal as a "piffle" was a mindboggling, specious,
unprofessional effort to come to the defense of the indefensible: a
White House that manipulates the press like marionettes.

Besides which, during the Clinton impeachment, the mainstream press
gravitated to every salacious detail leaked by Matt Drudge (illegally
secreted to him by Ken Starr's staff), like flies to excrement -- and
nary a complaint was heard. The New York Times and Washington Post
were among the lead flies circling the Drudge dung.

As we noted when we recently named Howard Kurtz, our BuzzFlash GOP
Hypocrite of the Week:

Following the Gannon story, anyone with half a brain cell realizes
that Kurtz's comments are simply damage control bullet points from or
for the White House. The blogging world did what the lackey mainstream
press will no longer do, expose a story that is at the epicenter of
the deceit and propaganda media campaign central to how the Bush
Cartel continues to control America. The Gannon story touches upon
everything from manufactured news to manufactured "reporters" to the
Valerie Plame affair to websites that have a connection to the White
House, but appear independent, to a Bush Cartel hypocrisy about gays,
to payola, to scripted Bush news conferences, to who knows what. This
is a BIG media story that should be on the cover of the New York Times
and Post.

But it isn't, is it? The real investigative news story that needs to
happen is not in the mainstream press; it is about the mainstream
press.

It has been a mindboggling Orwellian week when a Capital Hill/White
House Press Corps that couldn't stop salivating 24/7 over a blow job
dismisses a non-journalist getting access to CIA documents and
questioning the President of the United States, while he moonlights as
a gay military hooker, dismisses the story as nothing, even as untold
numbers of questions are raised about the White House credentialing
process, with enormous implications for potential lapses in national
security.

Hey, Scott McClellan admitted that he knew Gannon was operating under
a pseudonym, but that didn't seem to disturb him, until he later
qualified his story. In fact, there is so much damage control going on
at the White House now, you would think that the White House Press
Corps would be popping out with revelations of improprieties; that is,
if they were doing their jobs. But that would be too much to ask. No
one wants to rock the boat there, even when a mega-scandal is sitting
right next to them.

Okay, so let's get Republican here. It's not the seedy sex and whether
or not Gannon/Guckert was "servicing" anybody at the White House; it's
the lying. But the White House Press Corps long ago stopped caring
about Bush White House duplicity. Lying is the coin of the realm at
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Gannon/Guckert wasn't the only one to
transmit White House press releases without any serious questioning of
their veracity.

There are a thousand and one questions that can and should be raised
about the White House stonewalling and lies about the Gannon/Guckert
affair. And the only reason you will see them on the net is because it
can get a reporter fired to bring them up fairly in the mainstream
press (with the exception of columnists).

It's got nothing to do with credentials. You can report a Pentagon
news release, get two people in the Pentagon to say it's true, and
still be writing up a lie. It's who you ask, what you ask, and how
vigorously you pursue the story. Most mainstream reporters can
telephone in their stories nowadays after getting news releases from
the Bush Administration.

Sure, there are some decent, honest journalists chafing at the
restrictions placed upon them not to expose the truth about the White
House chronic lying and media manipulation. And there are some swell
columnists in the New York Times and Washington Post, but the
accomplices to the White House are the news editors. Everyday they
choose what is considered news and what is not considered news. It is
a highly subjective process, subject to White House pressure and
influence.

Recently, New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller wouldn't even
tell his own ombudsman why the controversial Judith Miller went on
television to discuss how the infamous source of many of her
misleading pre-Iraq leaks, Chalabi, was now on the insider's list of
the Bush Cartel again. You see, Miller revealed this on cable TV, in
the newspaper's name, several days before it appeared in the NYT under
another byline. And Miller was one of the people whose pre-Iraq war
reporting the NYT apologized for. But nothing's changed.

Which brings us to the Valerie Plame, Jeff Gannon/Guckert, Judith
Miller, Bob Novak, and Patrick Fitzgerald axis of "six degrees of
separation." Just a few of the mainstream press dots that connect one
to the other. You see, Gannon/Guckert tried to nail Joe Wilson by
saying that he, Gannon/Guckert, was shown a classified CIA document
(but Kurtz, Blitzer and the like seem to care little about such
violations of national security). And Miller, ostensibly, faces going
to jail for not revealing her knowledge about the Plame leak, while
Novak blissfully continues to get paid to shill for the Republicans
and the White House in particular, even though he was the one who
outed Plame.

So Bill Keller is getting all indignant that Miller might go to jail
and is making the Plame matter an issue of the right of a reporter to
maintain confidential sources. But, here is where it gets interesting.
Just the other day, a Federal judicial panel including David Sentelle
(who exonerated Ollie North, appointed Ken Starr, approved secret
activities by the FBI, and countless other decisions for the GOP),
approved sending Miller to jail if she didn't talk.

Well, why would a right wing lackey like Sentelle side with the Bush
administration on forcing a reporter (Judith Miller) who is a
propaganda conduit for them to go to jail? (Miller wrote stories
without naming sources that Cheney then used to create "factoids" to
justify the Iraq War.)

Here's why. Because the purpose of the so-called Fitzgerald "Plame
Investigation" is not to charge anyone at the White House; it is to
find a reason NOT to charge anyone at the White House. If the U.S.
Attorney can prove that there was general knowledge among a certain
group of reporters in D.C. that Plame was a CIA operative, then no
crime was committed. And that is where, in the end, trust us, the
go-to-girl for the White House, Judy Miller, will assist them. Alberto
Gonzales brought the two key lawyers who were representing Bush in the
Plame case to the Justice Department. So are you getting the picture
now?

And what better way to bollix up an investigation than not to subpoena
Novak, and, instead, subpoena secondary reporters to the investigation
and get the media to denounce the threats being placed on their
reporters? Ingenious.

Are you starting to connect the dots? The mainstream press should be
connecting the dots, except for the fact that they are the dots.

Bill Keller recently bemoaned to the New Yorker that Karl Rove had
berated him for not being fair to Bush. We were laughing so hard when
we read that, we fell off our barstool. The New York Times political
coverage (as distinct from its editorial page) is so innocuous and
unwilling to connect the dots of the Bush administration, it would be
useless without all of its supplementary sections, such as the
editorial section and book review. It's Karl Rove's dream "liberal
paper," because its news section is not liberal politically in the
least in terms of news judgment.

It's had a little run on torture stories, and printed an Iraq
munitions theft piece before the election because it was going to come
out anyway, but it accepts the administration as if it is an honest
one. If the role of journalism is to challenge authority by seeking
out the truth behind the official statements, the New York Times fails
miserably, with a few exceptions here and there. It in no way conveys
the radicalism of the people in the White House, nor runs longer
investigative pieces on their chronic deceptions and dishonesty. It
pretty much accepts their news handouts at face value.

Which returns us to Gannon/Guckert. Here was a shill for the White
House literally sitting amongst the mainstream reporters. A faux
reporter by day and gay prostitute for Marines by night. A man who
passed White House security using a pseudonym. A man the White House
Press Secretary says that he was aware was not using his real name. A
man who had access to at least one confidential CIA memorandum. And
that's only the beginning of the unfolding story. The latest is that
Dana Milbank, one of the reporters at the Post, says he believes
Gannon/Guckert had a "hard pass" (no pun intended), not a day pass, as
Scott McClellan has assured everyone. Gannon/Guckert couldn't even get
accredited by the Capitol Hill Press Corps, but he got to ask
questions of the President of the United States, as Helen Thomas was
banished to a back seat.

Any journalism school graduate, untainted by the corruption of a
mainstream press corps that is co-opted by the White House, would have
pursued the Gannon/Guckert story as did the bloggers and BuzzFlash.

When you are young and well-trained in a good journalism school, your
goal is the pursuit of the truth. Your concern is your professional
ethics and credibility. Your loyalty is to your country.

That's before you get corrupted.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL


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Old February 18th 05, 06:01 PM
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David wrote: More BS

Get that prescription refilled, 'tard boy.

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Old February 19th 05, 12:07 AM
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The Leftist Media
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles...le.asp?ID=6588

It's all inside!



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Old February 19th 05, 03:56 AM
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Brian Hill wrote:


"David" wrote in message
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Are you capable of responding intelligently or are you merely some
kind of reflexive phenomenom?


Are you intelligent enough to know your a God damn nuisance. How does it
feel to know everyone thinks your a fruit loop. Are you even in the
shortwave hobby? Do like Steve said and get some meds you frickin weirdo.


Yes, he is a nuisance, and I think that even though I agree with some of
the stuff he posts. But it's still off topic. I don't think I've EVER
seen David post something SW related. He says that his views are more
important than SW, which is fine for him to think that, but then he
should go to talk.politics.misc and leave us alone.


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Old February 19th 05, 04:21 PM
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On 18 Feb 2005 12:41:13 -0800, "Hatfield"
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If the *mainstream news providers have betrayed the people*, then the
people, sitting on their living room couches, will not be happy with
the newscast they are now watching. And so they will simply pick up the
handy clicker and change the channel !!

So not to worry, David, America is free to watch what we want, and free
to give poor viewer ratings to any news outlet which we distrust. Which
will cause their advertisers to start sponsoring other media channels
whose excellent ratings indicate the people are well pleased with their
content quality.

So really, David, thanks to capitalism and individual freedom, as
opposed to Government ownership and control, the problem you report is
(at least in America) automatically self correcting.

God bless America!.

Those people may as well be sitting on their couches shooting heroin.
There is virtually no real news on TV.



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Old February 19th 05, 05:01 PM
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"David" wrote in message
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| On 18 Feb 2005 12:41:13 -0800, "Hatfield"
| wrote:

| If the *mainstream news providers have betrayed the people*, then the
| people, sitting on their living room couches, will not be happy with
| the newscast they are now watching. And so they will simply pick up the
| handy clicker and change the channel !!

| So not to worry, David, America is free to watch what we want, and free
| to give poor viewer ratings to any news outlet which we distrust. Which
| will cause their advertisers to start sponsoring other media channels
| whose excellent ratings indicate the people are well pleased with their
| content quality.

| So really, David, thanks to capitalism and individual freedom, as
| opposed to Government ownership and control, the problem you report is
| (at least in America) automatically self correcting.

| God bless America!.

| Those people may as well be sitting on their couches shooting heroin.
| There is virtually no real news on TV.

Wow, this thread is almost on-topic!

But the flag-waver needs a reality check. Unless he's a frequent listener of
news sources outside of the U-S (my favourite is the CBC, but the Beeb will do)
the idea that market forces will "correct" this oversight fails to realise that
market forces have created this problem in the first place.

The first thing I'd do, if I were running things, is oblige licencees to run a
minimum amount of news sustaining (although I'm not sure what I'd do with
all-news stations) as a condition of licence. By taking out the financial
segment of the equation we might get the real news once again. As with
everything else in America, the money has corrupted the process to the point
where it's unrecognisable from the industry of the past, where true
investigative journalism overturned administrations, corrected social imbalances
and played a role in making the U-S the beacon of freedom it once was. But of
course, it's the flag-wavers who don't really want it that way, anyway, just so
long as things stay the same for them. And (it's worth noting, not that you
don't already know) there are plenty of countries where government "ownership"
does not come with government control....often, in truly free societies, it's
the government-owned media that is the biggest critic of its government. But
the flag-wavers don't know that, either.
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On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 16:01:18 GMT, "Bob Haberkost"
wrote:

Wow, this thread is almost on-topic!

But the flag-waver needs a reality check. Unless he's a frequent listener of
news sources outside of the U-S (my favourite is the CBC, but the Beeb will do)
the idea that market forces will "correct" this oversight fails to realise that
market forces have created this problem in the first place.


That's one really nice thing about Sirius Satellite. They have the
BBC World Service News 24/7, along with the CBC on World Radio Network
on PRI which carries ''As It Happens'' live.

Once you get the International News habit, you realize that the masses
are being brainwashed by the US commercial media. No other word for
it.

(X)Tard Boy

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I get the bbcAmerica tb channel on my DirecTV (DirecTB) tv set several
times a day and night.I rarely ever tune in though.I get my news from
certain right wing radio talk show stations I like and from certain
right wing internet sites I like.
cuhulin

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"David" wrote in message
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| On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 16:01:18 GMT, "Bob Haberkost"
| wrote:

| Wow, this thread is almost on-topic!

| But the flag-waver needs a reality check. Unless he's a frequent listener of
| news sources outside of the U-S (my favourite is the CBC, but the Beeb will
do)
| the idea that market forces will "correct" this oversight fails to realise
that
| market forces have created this problem in the first place.

| That's one really nice thing about Sirius Satellite. They have the
| BBC World Service News 24/7, along with the CBC on World Radio Network
| on PRI which carries ''As It Happens'' live.

Actually, a relatively insignificant correction: As It Happens as cleared by PRI
on Sirius 108 is already 1-1/2 hours later than when it aired, live, to the
Maritimes. You can get As It Happens on the Atlantic zone feed at
www.cbc.ca/audio.html, starting at 5:30pm ET. Further, PRI only clears the
first hour of AIH. AIH is well aware of what airs in the U-S, and, while I
wouldn't say it's deliberate, that last segment has a certain status, as such
it's quite a treat to listen to the last 30 minutes, using whatever other means
you might have. The most recent piece I heard in that last segment was that the
Pentagon had, a number of years ago, commissioned some research to see if Viagra
could be used to create a "gay bomb", whichwould be used on the enemy to so
thouroughly distract them with the rapture of coitus with others in their
platoon. So you can see, the folks who run the Pentagon really are homophobic.
You'll find it in the last 6 minutes of this archive
(http://cbc.ca/asithappens/media/dail...01-14-aih3.ram) if you're
interested.

| Once you get the International News habit, you realize that the masses
| are being brainwashed by the US commercial media. No other word for
| it.

Long convinced of that, here. I don't take any of my news anymore unless I get
it "vetted" by seeing a similar report from outside the country. We're really
in trouble when (and not to make it seem that I'm too paranoid, I should
probably amend that to "if") filters go up to prohibit the masses from listening
to outside sources. It's already been shown that the northern border states
are, by virtue of their exposure to Canadian media outlets, better informed and
more tolerant than those in the central and southern U-S. Not that it's a
primary reason, but the effects are certainly measureable. You have to wonder,
though, how it can be that people who listen to shortwave (as the cross-post'ed
newsgroup suggests...I'm looking at alt.radio.broadcast myself) don't get a wiff
of what's happening outside their own little worlds, where the U-S is best,
because they live in it.
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evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious
encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." -- Justice
Brandeis
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