Govt. Abandons Restrictions on (CNN)Coverage !!!!! (UPDATE)

[doxieone]

(Mediabistro.com)

<b>Saturday, Sep 10

Aftermath: Govt. "Abandons" Restrictions On Coverage Of Victim Recovery

Following up on yesterday's lawsuit: "Rather than fight a lawsuit by CNN, the federal government abandoned its effort Saturday to prevent the media from reporting on the recovery of the dead in New Orleans," CNN.com says.

>"Joint Task Force Katrina 'has no plans to bar, impede or prevent news media from their news gathering and reporting activities in connection with the deceased Hurricane Katrina victim recovery efforts,' said Col. Christian E. deGraff, representing the task force."

LINK TO CNN'S STORY:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/09/10/katrina.media/index.html

NOTE: The other thread is about yesterday!! This is today!

[JNelson6563]

1. Great news!

They knew the hue and cry would be too great and that we'd all know they were covering up their horrible failure on this.

Recommended.

Julie

[Trevelyan]

36. More information on the evacuees being held behind fences in

far off states that they did not agree to go to. A photo of two very worn out looking, unhappy women separated from the press by an orange wire fence.

http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/005403.php#more

Welcome To George's Holiday Camp
Here we go again.

The other day, I wrote about Katrina evacuees being taken to Utah with no prior knowledge of their destination, and that they were reportedly being kept behind barbed wire. I mentioned at the time that I couldn't confirm this, and if any Utahns who read The Left Coaster could confirm or deny this tale, it would be reported here.

But this morning, what do I spy - to my shock and surprise - but a similar report from Aurora, Colorado:

I was afraid of this. As the great diaspora of New Orleans continues with evacuees not being told where they're going until the bus/plane cranks up or until they land/arrive, the police state tactics of some of the 'welcoming' communities are actually just housing people at remote locations, behind fences - like prisons, really.

[katty]

44. Great! get out of our way you inept idiots-we ARE covering this!

[cindyw]

2. Great now CNN can go back to not reporting negative Bush news freely

[Voltaire99]

28. Ha. Too true, Cindy.

Would that we had a press worthy of the name.

[Trevelyan]

30. Still email to thank CNN AND MENTION YOUR CONCERNS

The article about winning access is too bland for my taste but if they are winning the battle for free access even if they don't print the worst photos they will be available and someone on the internet will.

Email Anderson Cooper, Geraldo Rivera and Shepard Smith thanking them and ask where Geraldo and Shepard are.

[bleever]

3. Score one point for the people's right to know. nt

[NeoConsSuck]

16. What makes you think

a corporate MSM like CNN is ever going to give you truth?

Have they ever been truthful about, Iraq, Chavez etc?

[NYC]

17. Because the Dutch will be operating the morgue.

All we need to do is read the Dutch papers. The U.S. papers will not be able to ignore the numbers. They'll likely interview morgue workers.

[bleever]

22. At least if the images aren't blacked out, some of the reality gets

through, in a powerful way, and it makes the spinning of the WH and the potential collusion of the corporate media that much less influential.

And I did say, score "one". But I'll take every inch we can get.

[Patsy Stone]

23. Slooooowly I turn.

Step by step, inch by inch...

NGU

:hi:

[Javaman]

39. I snuck up upon him...

[0007]

38. Yeah Right!

[MelissaB]

4. Wonderful news! I've been waiting to hear this.

Thanks!

[daninthemoon]

5. Could still all be smoke and mirrors. For instance, if CNN still holds

back on attacking * full on, rove can spin that they took their best shot and came up short. They could become the new "fair and balanced".

[teknomanzer]

6. Its not entirely CNN's game...

there are other journalists to consider... the truth can and will get out now.

[daninthemoon]

9. The truth has always been out there, but will the heartland listen?

[teknomanzer]

13. People are starting to listen.

Sure there is a 39% (or less) that may never get it... but they probably believe that the earth is only 10,000 years old and the devil buried fossils to decieve us. It may be exhausting but we have to keep dealing with these types of people and their childlike world view until they wake the fuck up or the message gets lodge in their offsprings heads.

[ClintonTyree]

41. Unfortunately........

that's going to take generations to achieve. The propaganda is so deeply entrenched in some of these families that it may never take hold. There is a certain faction that will NEVER abandon their archaic belief system because reality and the future just scares the bejeebus out of them and they can't handle it. They'd rather cling to some fairy tale than face facts.
As you say, it's going to be exhausting and then there will still be those that refuse to evolve.

[ElectroPrincess]

40. Makes you wonder if there was a "back room deal" with the Executives? n/t

[bloom]

7. that's great... eom

[sattahipdeep]

8. "It's like luxury camping," (high-end housing contractor)

NEW ORLEANS -- Just blocks from a smoldering fire and walking distance from
bodies floating in the floodwaters...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/AR2005090901849.html

His own multimillion-dollar home was nearby, but he set up operations in this
even fancier mansion because it still had running water and functioning phones.

Earlier in the week, the men feasted on Cornish hens and jumbo shrimp.

[KoKo]

12. Now I know why Cokie Roberts was whoring for Bush on Stepanopolis Show

last weekend. Her mother lives in one of those fancy houses in NO's and she probably hired Blackwater to protect it. She knew the family mansion was okay...so she played it up. Although she never revealed that her mother had a home in the French Quarter and Snuffy never asked her how her mom's house fared in the storm.

Unbelievable. One wonders how they knew their homes wouldn't flood, if the levee's broke. How could they have been so sure?

[Trevelyan]

32. Links to turnabout in MSM coverage, Are they turning back?

AOL Mainpage News~~Media v. Government, Part 23

While many bloggers lauded the MSM for its outrage in the post-Katrina coverage, many are now taking note of the growing testiness between the media and the government. Are they going too far, or pulling back too much?

· That bravura is gone now, says LAWeekly.
· David Gregory took on Scott McClellan.
· While Nancy Pelosi took on Kyra Phillips.
· Shep Smith's anger is palpable, says TVNewser.
· Lynne Cheney gets fed up with Fox, notes NewsHounds.

[Trevelyan]

33. Conservative Blog Mentions the "coincidence" between Supreme Court saying

business can steal land if they can "make it more profitable" and the breaking of the levees and the forced evacuations. Didn't sound happy about the violation of citizen land owner laws.

Conservatism Without Prefixes
http://theggnomeridesout.blogspot.com/2005/09/reconstruction-of-new-orleans-part-i.html


9/9/2005
The Reconstruction of New Orleans, Part I: The Land The Good Lord, the Gulf Stream and the Supreme Court of the United States all work in mysterious ways. Who would have thought that the most widescale devastation ever visited on a coastal American city would have happened just months after the Supreme Court ruled in Kelo - New London that the poor can't live by the beach?

The amount of private property in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast which will be seized by government under 'Kelo's test of 'public benefit' will be staggering. Steve Sailer has suggested 'Rebuilding New Orleans as Venice', and that a reconstructed city should embrace the water. (more)

http://www.bayoubuzz.com

[nolabels]

34. Did the SCOTUS say anything about the ocean?

Like it can take back too if it finds it needs more space or something :hide:

Next thing SCOTUS rules on will be the sky is blue but the government can rent it out, bet me :crazy:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. Let's be crass and realistic

CNN has seen its numbers skyrocket, especially with Cafferty, Anderson and others who are telling the painful truth. Don't you think they will follow the stench of money and continue to search out corpses, fraud and FEMAssteps?
Like today, with merely a jaundiced look at the camera, the reporter expressed dismay at the debit card fiasco. on, then off, on again, then a promise to send them to the homeless' homes, then on again, then off.

That kind of officious incompetence has to be planned, it does not occur in nature otherwise.

[guruoo]

11. Just watch - they'll still try to coverup

[texpatriot2004]

14. Thank God for CNN. n/t

[AX10]

15. CNN actually is doing it's job!

America wins, Bush loses!

[Laelth]

18. A Victory for the 1st Amendment

... a victory for the Constitution, a victory for the truth, and a victory for the American people.

I have become so numb over the past few years that I couldn't bring myself to believe that such a victory was even possible. Rejoice, but remember the cost. Why does it always have to be so high?

-Laelth

[SlavesandBulldozers]

19. hooray they let us keep the Constitution!

thank you government, we owe you one bigtime! You're the best!

[goforit]

20. Keep one eye open folks!...This may be a scam!!!

[The Backlash Cometh]

21. What if CNN stood up to Dick Cheney over those Energy Papers?

I bet the Sierra Club could have used the help.

[tuvor]

24. U.S. won't ban media from New Orleans searches

HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) -- Rather than fight a lawsuit by CNN, the federal government abandoned its effort Saturday to prevent the media from reporting on the recovery of the dead in New Orleans.

Joint Task Force Katrina "has no plans to bar, impede or prevent news media from their news gathering and reporting activities in connection with the deceased Hurricane Katrina victim recovery efforts," said Col. Christian E. deGraff, representing the task force.

U.S. District Court Judge Keith Ellison issued a temporary restraining order Friday against a "zero access" policy announced earlier in the day by Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, who is overseeing the federal relief effort in the city, and Terry Ebbert, the city's homeland security director.

In explaining the ban, Ebbert said, "we don't think that's proper" to let members of the media view the bodies.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/09/10/katrina.media/index.html

Rolled over without a fight. Hmmm...

[skooooo]

25. fu ebbert

[fooj]

26. IMO, that's why we got a different version (spin) re: death toll yesterday

They didn't anticipate CNN going to court...

What island do you think they'll run to? They're just about at the end of their gig, IMO.

Peace.

[roguevalley]

27. May I say: "BWAHAHAHA!" Way to go at last, damned media.

[intheflow]

29. Clouds part. Cue heavenly angel choir.

It's a miracle. I doubt they finally learned about the concept of a free press, but instead must have figured if CNN sues, they'll all sue. Still, I'm glad it happened.

[Trevelyan]

31. They Shoot News Anchors, Don’t They? LA Weekly BLAST

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/printme.php?eid=67680

They Shoot News Anchors, Don’t They?
Media moguls, not looters, killed Katrina’s truth tellers
by NIKKI FINKE

For the first 120 hours after Hurricane Katrina, TV journalists were let off their leashes by their mogul owners, the result of a rare conjoining of flawless timing (summer’s biggest vacation week) and foulest tragedy (America’s worst natural disaster).

No one could have anticipated that, suddenly, TV’s two prettiest-boy anchors would be boldly and tearfully (CNN’s Anderson Cooper and FNC’s Shep Smith, to their immense credit) relating horror whenever and wherever they found it, no matter if the fault lay with Mother Nature or President Dubya. The impact was felt immediately. The depth of their reporting, along with that of other TV newscasters who were similarly unashamed to show their outrage, bested almost anything written by the most talented and experienced newspaper reporters. And the rawness of that televised despair spurred a still-new generation of Internet blogs and Web magazines to abandon their potty-mouthed snarking for long enough to start snarling at the proliferation of government lies and lying liars who tell them. (Wonkette, Gawker,Boing Boing, Sploid, and TVNewser all deserve immense kudos. But it was Slate’s Jack Shafer, the best media critic in the

(snip)

Supporting the Bush administration can be good for corporate coffers, in the form of government contracts, billion-dollar tax breaks and getting the feds to provide special security favors. (For more on this, see my previous story, “When Might Turns Right: Golly GE, Why Big Media Is Pro-Bush,

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/45/deadline-finke.php)

Meanwhile, the situation is about to get worse. Already, incoming Disney CEO Bob Iger has tried repeatedly to dismantle Nightline. And CBS chairman Les Moonves wants to reinvent TV news to be more like entertainment shows — as if it’s not that way already — hosted by even prettier people. Surely they can’t be counted on to go up against the Bush administration on the body-bagging issue.
(snip)

Unless the newscasters themselves keep rebelling and keep trying to show the truth, it won’t be long before TV news will be taken out in a coffin, too.

much detailed information in the article on MSNBC about face to support the chimp and who owns NBC up the chain of command.

[Rainscents]

35. This is great news!!!

We Shall Overcome! Tie is turning my friends!

[barbaraann]

37. Col. Ebbert's the guy whose first response was to think about buying

oil futures. He noted that the market wasn't open so he couldn't do it on Sunday before it hit.

[RaleighNCDUer]

42. I have to wonder --

they allow the press in, now, at the same time that they assert that the death toll will be lower than predicted.

After Blackwater has has three days, unmolested, to dispose of bodies.

Is my tinfoil hat too tight?

[Teena]

43. CALL NOW!

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Launch a complaint. Let the Commander in Chief know you think
it’s time he and his cabinet stepped aside so that competent leaders
can begin to restore dignity, order, and progress to our nation.
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