CNN's Yellin: (ABC) Network execs killed critical White House stories

[Newsjock]

Source: Politico

On Wednesday night, CNN's Jessica Yellin talked to Anderson Cooper about Scott McClellan's tell-all memoir and agreed with the former press secretary that White House reporters "dropped the ball" during the run-up to war.

But Yellin went much further, revealing that news executives--presumably at ABC News, where she'd worked from July 2003 to August 2007--actively pushed her not do hard-hitting pieces on the Bush administration.

"The press corps was under enormous pressure from corporate executives, frankly, to make sure that this was a war presented in way that was consistent with the patriotic fever in the nation and the president's high approval ratings," Yellin said.

"And my own experience at the White House was that the higher the president's approval ratings, the more pressure I had from news executives--and I was not at this network at the time--but the more pressure I had from news executives to put on positive stories about the president, I think over time...."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0508/CNN...

[livetohike]

1. Bring them all to trial for suppressing the truth - it's disgusting

I can still see Helen Thomas sitting in the front row.....the only one with guts.

[pnwmom]

30. It still takes guts -- look how few have acknowledged this even now. n/t

[dave123williams]

95. Admitting you're a useless douchebag on the air is something their egos won't allow.

[gasperc]

2. media now using McClennen as an escape hatch

so they won't take the blame for doing such a shit poor job of reporting the truth. But as your post points out, that was the plan all along.

[KSinTX]

60. Of course that was the administration's plan

It always is, and not just this one. Any reporter sitting there thinking these guys are giving truth to power are deluded. It is their job to take the talking points and debunk them with facts, not sit around a round tables and pontificate about them. I know, it's a tough assignment; it means leaving their cushy offices and go out and dig. That's not just drinks with the top guys at Duke Ziebert's cause it makes them feel important, but burgers and drinks with secretaries and janitors at the Hard Rock.

[gasperc]

67. that used to be how they sold papers(or ads these days)

now it's totally flipped, there seems to be a pervasive "fear" that they could lose thier cushy gig if they press too hard. a totally dysfunctional system

[KSinTX]

71. OMG! You're probably the first person I've run into here

who's said this. Thank you. I was absolutely horrified by the press BBQ at McCain's and nobody seemed to quite see how perverse that was. It looked like reporters having a fun day off but it wasn't. It was the whoring out of the media in the MIDDLE of a political campaign. It wasn't just that they attended the thing that stunned me - it was that McCain knew they would. I'm not averse to a press conference at which food is served and he had every right to hold it and invite. But that wasn't the intent - these were his "friends" over for a light-hearted gathering. Happy you made the connection (well not on just McCain but on the purpose of it all!)

Let me know if this BBQ bewildered you.

[Chulanowa]

105. The big problem is... Fact has become a matter of opinion.

The editorial page has been allowed to take over the headlines.

[marmar]

3. Good golly Miss Molly....It's like a media food fight right now.

Fingers pointing everywhere.

[bdamomma]

24. it is rather nice to see too, they are eating their own.

[LynnTheDem]

4. That's how fascism works. That's also why USA is #53 in the world for

freedoms of the press.

[pnorman]

26. I thought there might have been some "creative" hyperbole in that statement, so I Googled it.

BINGO! Right up there with Botswana, Croatia, and Tonga! Here it is: http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=639

Please excuse my initial skepticism, but after several weeks of the current GD-P delusional LUNACY, I Google EVERYTHING!

pnorman

[LynnTheDem]

33. Good on you; checking everything said from ALL sides makes you a true patriot.

Hang onto your skepticism; it's worth its weight in platinum, my friend!

[LynnTheDem]

34. dupe

[Gman]

5. So now it's going to be OK for the media to confess their sins

and receive reconciliation both for the salvation of their careers as well as their own consciences.

[UpInArms]

8. no, all of this "mea culpa" bullshit is so that they can destroy

Obama when he takes residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave

[DogPoundPup]

9. Agree ... n/t

[Doctor_J]

13. Correct. They will suddenly regain their teeth as soon as Obama is sworn in

Many are probably wishing for a Dem president to they don't have to fear for their lives if they ask a hard question.

[Ghost Dog]

80. BINGO!

[aquart]

97. And they'll say, "This is what you wanted, isn't it?"

Actually, I'd like to believe they will be tough. The incoming president inherits all Bush's usurped powers PLUS the precedent of Congress refusing to prosecute for their abuse. I'm not comfortable even giving God that much power.

[Ghost Dog]

99. Good points, aquart.

[tonkatoy57]

15. Bingo

Suddenly, as if by magic, the press will regain their form. They'll be meaner than junkyard dogs, gnawing at the leg of Truth.

We'll be treated to breathless, never ending stories and excruciatingly detailed questioning of the press secretary. The nation will be asked, "how can our democracy survive", when details come to light that a high government official...

A. Stole pencils from a former employer
B. Has unpaid parking tickets
C. Reportedly had sex before marriage
D. Was publicly critical of a Wall Street Journal editorial.

Get ready for it. It's coming. It's gonna be the next big thing. It's gonna make blowjobgate look like a picnic. The newspapers and cable yak fests will be full of outraged, really truly outraged, Republicans and the business of governing will grind to a halt and nothing, not one fucking thing will be accomplished until the Republicans are voted into office again and they can continue dismantling and strip mining the government.

[chill_wind]

55. Powerful analysis! You sum things up exceptionally well.

Your writing here is fantastic!

[truebrit71]

72. I fear that you may be closer to the truth than it seems

...I can absolutely see that happening....

...the question is, what are we going to do about it?

[hvn_nbr_2]

77. Exactly. "Patriotic fervor...and president's high approval" are complete and utter bullshit.

When the patriotic fervor died down, along about the time of local units' second deployments, and when Chimpie's approval went down to 30, they were still doing exactly the same thing. Patriotic fervor and high approval ratings had absolutely nothing to do with it. Wingnuts in charge of giga-corp-Pravda, protecting a Republican president, had everything to do with it. As soon as a Democrat is president, once again blowjobs, W-keys on keyboards, and other nothing-there stories will be red meat for rabid pit bull fake journalists. The current mea culpa's are just a fig leaf to pretend that they've rehabilitated themselves since it has become obvious to everyone that they've been a bunch of shills.

[bluesmail]

17. excellent point.

[Gman]

19. Actually I don't think the intent was ever anything but

to destroy whichever Democrat is in the WH. However, their patriotism cover is blown. They have to use old fashioned yellow journalism now.

[navarth]

6. Anybody see Chris Matthews last night?

David Gregory saying the press corps isn't to blame?

David Gregory, whose entire claim to integrity is that he gave Scott McClellan a hard time once?

Keep shoveling, David.

The entire press corps, with a few shining exceptions, is GUILTY as hell. Same for the cowardly bastard executives.

HUGE piles of dead bodies. There needs to be justice. There needs to be a reckoning.

[bluedeminredstate]

38. What a dick!

He blamed the American public for not exerting enough pressure on the press to cover the story. "Where was the American public?" he whined. I thought Mike Allen's lips were going to crack and fly off his face from his spitting denial of Scott's charges that the WH press corps basically sat on their collective asses when they weren't doing splits and jumps during their cheering routines for the war.

I has to turn Gregory off when he talked about how hard he has reflected on this, coming to the conclusion that, no, he did everything just right.

[navarth]

50. No shit

I haven't been able to look at that guy without squirming ever since I saw him dancing with Rove.

[defendandprotect]

68. They are still all reporting what CORPORATE-MEDIA says to report . . .

this is a bit of a break-away --- but is no where near getting out the truth of what has happened and where we actually are in America --- at the threshold of fascism.

Our problem is corporate-control of the press -- and while journalists who do their employer's bidding are a definite problem they aren't willing to give up their livelihood and get fired.

The basic problem is with FCC rules which are permitting corporations to control what the public
gets to know --- "Fairness in Broadcasting" must be returned ---

Monopoly/capitalism has to be attacked and re-regulated ---

[Supersedeas]

84. Gregory was acting like a pathetic shill trying to laugh it off

[Blaq Dem]

108. David Gregory was the one dancing and rapping with Karl Rove

Remember when they were all acting stupid together?

MC Rove -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYZre8kEsuw

[gratuitous]

7. But you kept picking up your fat paycheck, didn't you?

"Gee, I've got this great story, talked to a lot of sources, it's good and there's some terrific footage to go along with it. But my boss says we have to be consistent with the patriotic fever in the nation, so into the shitcan it goes. Too bad a lot of money is going to be flushed down the toilet, along with hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives. But I'm gettin' paid!"

[NashVegas]

22. While Knight-Ridder Got Bought and Sold and Broken Up

For reporting the truth.

[mitchum]

10. Those executives do have names; who are they?

[State the Obvious]

11. There is enough blame for everyone.

I think we are going to see many news reporters back-pedaling as fast as they can. But the key phrase (OP) is "enormous pressure from CORPORATE EXECUTIVES". They are the ones that need to pay the price....the Republican-owned corporate media.

[cascadiance]

23. All of those so-called "librul media" critics need to see this...

I've long said critiqued these "critiquers" who use the "liberal" on-air talent and polls of such individuals as "proof" that they are the liberal media. It is the only industry where they claim that the rank and file employees of companies and NOT the management set the agenda of what the companies do. That fact and the fact that espousing liberal ideas doesn't pragmatically produce profit is what is a totally illogical argument from their own market driven views on how capitalism works.

When McClellan was saying that the "liberal media" wasn't doing their job in holding this president accountable, he's either saying that they were incompetent in carrying out a "liberal agenda", or that in fact they ARE NOT the "liberal media". Those who believe in market driven economics would have to realize that the second explanaation here is the only one that makes sense.

[shain from kane]

12. "You provide the pictures; I'll provide the war."

"One famous anecdote, which made its way into Citizen Kane, tells of Hearst ordering the legendary artist Frederic Remington to send dispatches about the war from Cuba. Remington sent Hearst a telegram saying there was no war. Hearst replied that if Remington furnished the pictures, Hearst would furnish the war."

[global1]

14. Get Her & Scott Before Leahy & Conyers Committees.......

this should not be swept under the rug again. Get them up on the Hill to testify to their claims. Get to the bottom of all this. Show the WH for what it is. Show the MSM for what it is.

I hope she has some old e-mails or directive's from her former network that state this in black and white. Call them out on it. We need to reclaim our media. We need the truth.

Go Yellin!!!! Go Scott!!!!

[defendandprotect]

69. The problem is corporate-control, not "executives" who do corp bidding . . .

nor journalists who do corp bidding ---

Yeah -- it would be nice if they said "no" --- but someone else would just take the job.

We have to restore "Fairness in Broadcasting Act" which held sway for 60 years!

[blm]

70. Dan Rather admitted last year the networks NEEDED to protect Bush for his election

so they could count on the favorable ownership rulings they expected from his second term.

THAT is why Bush - who ran a LOUSY re-election campaign - was able to survive as the man who actually ran the winning campaign was targeted constantly with lies and distortions and the heavy editing of all his speeches during the campaign.

[IsItJustMe]

102. Yes, just like our msm did not tell the truth about Iraq, they swift boated Kerry. I quit watching

cable news after that and turned to the internet.

[stillcool]

16. more orchestrated drama...

while they continue to lie. Now their pimping Bush's reasoning for war as "Democracy in the Middle east"? Give me a break. Frigging soap opera.

[Dr.Phool]

18. Pot (CNN) calling kettle (ABC) black.

They were all sucking ass, as fast as it could be reeled out to them.

Revoke all their licenses.

[PATRICK]

25. She wasn;t checking with

the old CNN hands she was embarassing. Lots of whistling at the ceiling over that one. Is she that naive?
The usual question: that dumbly disingenous or is this smartly contrived? I strongly suspect the former in this case but having to do the Right's will makes them dumb or apparently dumb no matter what.

[Imagevision]

20. M$M sucked us in to Bush's war and just as guilty as he is.

[bdamomma]

27. exactly the corporate media is just another tool for the BCF.

they have done such injustices to the American people by shoveling out shit to us instead of the facts. They can take the infotainment and shove it.

[DeepModem Mom]

21. K&R

[Ian David]

28. Fucking traitors. n/t

[stubtoe]

47. Second that. n/t

[pnwmom]

29. Good for her. So she's confirming exactly what K. Couric just said. n/t

[fshrink]

90. Note that

there are only two so far. *All* the others still deny or ignore, including the NYT, who has a special place in my grudge.

[DeSwiss]

31. And ABC's denouncing her comments as a pack 'o lies......

to begin in 3, 2, 1....

You know, while I applaud these recent revelations and all (McClellan, et al), I can't help be get pissed-off that all these people are suddenly "getting religion" about BushCo now that he's virtually toothless.

- How many lives might they have saved if they'd had the courage earlier???

on edit: K&R!!!

[no limit]

32. I saw that yesterday, when I heard it I nearly dropped

I couldn't believe it that moment of honesty. I bet we won't be seeing her on any of these networks again.

[MadBadger]

35. I assumed she was working at MSNBC, and not ABC.

July 2003 is after the lead up to war, and she worked for MSNBC before ABC.

[Jim Lane]

106. She's posted a confirmation that she was referring to MSNBC.

Link to Yellin post clarifying her comment.

[Bread and Circus]

36. I thought all the "breathless surprise" last night was bizarre.

First, it struck me weird that nearly everyone, Democrats and Republicans alike thought it was somehow morally wrong for McClellan to come out with the truth and blow the whistle. Honestly, what the fuck is wrong with our government these days when deception is SOP.

Second, it was bizarre how people acted as if this was all somehow relevatory when all you need is google and half a brain to figure this bullshit out. On DU, this groundbreaking info is standard fare. Are we that smart or are they willfully dumb?

Third, when Yellin said what she said I could sense she knew she had went too far. She literally pulled back the Emerald Curtain. We, meaning the blogospherizens, knew that this was all a corporate charade. She just admitted it in bold face. She followed it up with qualification but there it was.

I say kudos to McClellan, even if he is trying to make a buck. They are all a bunch of fucking liars, most Democrats too.

[nam78_two]

37. K&R

I am shocked .

[Ishoutandscream2]

45. No shit. How long have we been saying this around here?

Sad that just a bunch of average folks who do other jobs for a living are several steps ahead of the MSM. I almost feel like a goddamned genius.

[la la]

83. yeah-

I think 99.9% of 'us' here feel the same way. My complaint for about 7 years is * how come no one listens to me!*

[mdmc]

39. another example of what Mussolini termed corporatism

fascist

[scytherius]

40. The real traitors

When history looks back at this nightmare period in American history (whether America survives or not) they will see the real traitors as the press. If the press had acted like a true Fourth Estate, Bush wouldn't even be President.

[Ghost Dog]

88. also BINGO!

ed. ...and welcome to DU, scytherius.

[Webster Green]

41. Hang 'em all..

They're all traitors!

I've always been against capital punishment, but these scumbag traitors have me re-thinking my position.

Sloppy, Saddam style hangings, with cell phone video all over YouTube. Maybe hang 'em upside down like the people did to Mussolini and his old lady.

Yeah, that's the ticket!

[paparush]

42. In Other News - Bear Poops in Woods, Sun Rises in East.

[Blue_Tires]

43. a lot of good this admission does us NOW....

[JimboDem]

44. They Enabled War and Death.

I've lost all respect for them. Their silence and lack of professional ethics was summed up best for me, when I saw this http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=rove%20damcing%20... I appreciate what Ms. Yellin says, but their farsical 'Mea Culpas' and blame-tossing will not bring back the lives of those killed by Bushes War and their collective culpability. They bought doughnuts(complete with glowing praise)for McCain recently at theAssosiated Press gathering. My cynicism wonders how 'imbedded' they will remain to their corporate and political masters. They owe apologies to Helen Thomas for being silent when she has been one of the few to question our/their government.

[ckramer]

46. Further proves that corporations are sometimes obstacles for democracy

It answers to no one.

[defendandprotect]

74. Unregulated capitalism/corporations are our problem . . . put corporatiosn back in the box . ..

The decades of pulling apart the New Deal to de-regulate capitalism has taken a huge toll on America, on our species and on the planet --

We know what's wrong --- we have to restore the New Deal --- and then some!!

Capitalism is a ridiculous King-of-the-Hill System which exists to move assets/natural resources/wealth from the many to the few ---

Patriarchy, organized patriarchal religions, capitalism are suicidal concepts which work against
ideals democracy and self-determination --- and deliver not "happiness" but ruin.

[BadgerKid]

48. Hmm...Politico has been getting lots of play lately.

Oh, and M$M can go rot.

[navarth]

75. yeah, what's with Politico? why should I trust them?

aren't they run by Repigs?

[Barack_America]

49. Scary, scary, scary.

I'd love to hear what those execs are saying about the Democratic primaries.

Nevermind, I think I already know.

[underpants]

51. If memory serves ABC is owned by Disney and then Disney head Eisner rejected a movie.....

Let's see it wasn't that horrific piece of CYA blame-the-predecessor "Path to 9/11" no they not only bought that but they aired it on network TV

No it was a movie that SOME PEOPLE SAY was critical maybe even harsh in regards to the Bush administration and Bush's history... Eisner wouldn't distribute it and Miramax ended up with it making a boatload of money off it....


Let me think.... OOOoooh I know I will google "highest grossing documentary of all time"

[defendandprotect]

76. SICKO obviously hasn't played on corporate-media anywhere I've seen....!!!

I don't own a copy of it yet --- and, btw, I haven't noticed it in the stores ---

usually, you'll see a movie this popular out there for sale???

Of course, Amazon has it ---

Disney is as right-wing or more as GE -- and they're both more right-wing than the John Birch Society!

[Politicalboi]

52. Bush attacks us

On 9/11 and now HE has sympathy from the media. Like he was a victim of 9/11. But the real victims US are being ignored and called crazy. Bush's assministration are the same crooks involved with his father and Nixon. I mean how fucking hard do you have to dig to find anything.

[JNelson6563]

53. Who could've imagined such a thing?

Corporate bosses at the corporate owned media only wanted war friendly, Bush supporting stories! What a shock!

Yet the right-wingers will still scream about the "librul meeeedia" and some will still believe it. That's the real shocker.

Julie

[madrchsod]

54. cbs did the same thing

chicago`s station was not to run it`s own iraqi stories or pictures. only approved stories/pictures from cbs office in new york were to be aired...

[ptolle]

56. CYA

I caught some of CNN's morning news, American Morning this morning and the host John Roberts, senior national correspondent for CNN was doing a fine job of CYA for himself, the rest of the media in general, and the white house press corps in particular. It's my understanding that as senior national correspondent Roberts beat included the white house and the press corps.At one point in his dismissal of McClellan's account he stated remembering how the press had "hammered" Scotty. I don't remember that. I remember a few, all too few, questions with little follow up actual probing. Basically just remaining bent over and saying please sir may I have some more.Since Scotty has accused them of dereliction of duty you may expect the corporate press whores to join in the attempts to dismiss Scotty's book as the whingeing of a "disgruntled former employee"- though I seem to remember Scotty left of his own accord- or mental illness in the form of advanced bush derangement, or purely mercenary motives, he's only in it for the money.

[sojourner]

57. jeez...did you read the comments below that piece? THOSE PEOPLE are scary!

[chill_wind]

58. Big ol Kick and Rec. n/t

[The Backlash Cometh]

59. Well, well, well. The finger pointing is beginning.

So, newspaper people, are you going to take this as a cue? Isn't it about time that you all print the news you've been hiding from the public? Look how foolish you all will be when the truth finally comes out.

[GoldenOldie]

63. Time to put the faces with the traitorous Corporate Media Execs.

Time for "We the People," to truly know who our enemies from within, are. Let the friends, family, neighbors, readers, listeners, actually see the faces of these unethical, traitorous, cowards.

Time for "We the People," to take back the Fourth Estate.

[liberal N proud]

61. Hearing this makes me feel vindicated

I was telling people all these years that the media was soft of bu$h and many denied it.

[KansDem]

62. "Dropped the ball?" Bullshit! The grabbed the ball and ran to the opposite goalposts!

After their corporate "coaches" told them to!

[Pryderi]

64. K&R K&RK&RK&R K&RK&RK&RK&RK&RK&RK&R K&RK&R K&RK&RK&R

[Botany]

65. Just like all the anti war demostrations prior to the war and the mountian ...

.... of evidence that bush didn't win in 2000 or 2004 but stole the elections ...
the media has been covering bush's ass for a long time.

Bush is a former coke-head, an alcoholic, who had 3 failed businesses, went
AWOL from his military obligation, made money on insider deals, had been
arrested more than once, did 1 year of community service in Houston, TX,
and talked about when he became President about "his war" in Iraq in 1999 ....
and the press never cover any of that. Hell, the press still talk about bush's
"ranch" in Crawford, TX when they all know it is nothing more than a backdrop
for photo ops.

[pink-o]

89. I know--it's the double-standard, Stupid!

If any Dem did half the shit Bush did--if Michelle Obama had killed her ex-boyfriend with her car like Laura did--the "liberal media" would grab hold like a pit bull and never let go. We'd be treated to nightly updates on all the heinousness of those horrible progressives!

As it stands, the tragedy is that the "liberal media" has given the neo-cons such a pass for the last decade. If those corporate, whore, fuckers had actually done what they're supposed to, maybe the rest of the American Public (instead of just us on DU) would've been clued in enough to vote the treasonous bastards out of office.

Saving 4000 American lives, countless Iraqi lives, American jobs, homes, and our economy, egging us on for alternative energy sources and keeping us informed, like what they signed up to do and why they're protected under the 1st amendment.

The Whore media has more to answer for than anyone else these last 8 years. We all expect the Neo-cons to act like greedy pigs, but the Fourth Estate is supposed to be there to hold their feet to the fire.

Miserable failures, all of them!

[defendandprotect]

66. Suggesting that they simply didn't want to defy a president "with high approval ratings" . . .

"...the higher the president's approval ratings, the more pressure I had from news executives..."

certainly isn't anywhere near the full story --

Obviously, we'd had a president with very LOW ratings and things still haven't changed ---

We're getting a little "mea culpa" but not very much truth still ---

Let's go look at MOCKINGBIRD . . .

We've had right-wing propaganda running the press whether coming from corrupted government or
corrupted intelligence/Pentagon . . . for decades!

"Propaganda" as a term is shocking to the people in the White House . . . ???

Bush: "You have to get out there frequently and catapult the propaganda" ---

Nixon White House --- Playing/studying films of Nazi propaganda

Though I have to agree books and media were totally ignoring "propaganda" as a subject -- and
mainly still are --- except for Prof. Mark Crispin Miller --- !!!

[blm]

73. TRUTH: They PROTECTED Bush for the favorable FCC rulings expected from a 2nd Bush term.

Dan Rather admitted it last year and I BELIEVE HIM.

[defendandprotect]

79. AND ...because corporations are anti-ideals of democracy . . .

You might say that wealth/royalty simply morphed into capitalism/corporatism ---

When capitalism is regulated we can live with it ---
but they've been knocking over corporate regulations since the moment of the coup on JFK --

"Fairness in Broadcasting" stood for 60 years ---
we have to return to it ---

Though, I have to say that this period of extremes -- as deadly and disastrous as it is ---
has one tiny side benefit of letting the people see more clearly behind the curtain.

[defendandprotect]

78. Push RECOMMEND ---

[daleo]

81. Corporate Pravda. n/t

[Cleita]

82. This started the day Bush took office, before 9-11 and

before the steamroll to wage war on Iraq. All of a sudden every news anchor was gushing about every move "this very popular President" made over and over again. Yet, his approval rating was often lower than Clinton's at the height of the media bloviated Lewinsky scandal and it left me scratching my head and questioning what was going on with the MSM. Well, eight years later, the truth that most of us had figured out by 2001 with the help of the now defunct website, "Media Whores Online" is becoming the news. Too bad we who actually try to be informed couldn't get our message out to the misguided Bush voters that helped him and his evil cabal stay in office all this time so they could ruin our country as much as they have. There is another culprit in this and that is all the Churches who openly preached against anything and anyone with left leaning political ideologies, praising the Bush administration to their congregations and thereby influencing the vote of their kool-aid drinking congregations in violation of the Constitution's precept of separation of church and state.

[lovuian]

85. So you took part in the Propoganda Machine like Everybody

Else do you get the feeling their is panic in the Propoganda Machine that its NOT working

[Ghost Dog]

96. YES, lovuian. n/t

[texastoast]

86. Of course they were following orders from the White House

And now all the talking heads, who, had they any integrity at all as journalists, would not have condescended to yellow journalism and jingoistic practices.

Everyone of these fucks deserves this.

And I will NEVER forget the Bush connection to Clear Channel--chair Lowry Mays, whose Clear Channel stations sponsored the "Patriot Rallys" against Natalie Maines and the Dixie Chicks.

"Mays is a close friend of and major fundraiser for both former President George H.W. Bush and current President George W. Bush. He was named to the Texas Technology Council when the younger Bush was the governor of Texas."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowry_Mays

Make them all pay for what they have done to our country.

[Ghost Dog]

98. Oh yes. Good time to play the Dixie Chicks, again, LOUD. N/t

[Uncle Joe]

87. The corporate media enabled Bush to power long before his "high approval ratings".

They camouflaged his shortcomings, they slandered, libeled and generally trashed Al Gore at virtually every opportunity, they turned 180s overnight on their own and their focus groups opinions as to who won the debates, at first they said Al Gore won. The openly jeered Al Gore during one of the debates.

They demeaned the power and import of the office of the Presidency by turning it to American Idol with them being the judges. Who wants to have a beer with the President and who could possibly be President if they ever wore earth tone clothes?

They empowered self serving ignorant corruption to the most powerful job in the land over vision and dedication to people, is it any wonder as to why fecal material is hitting the fan!?

[texastoast]

103. Goddamned right, they did

Well said. THEY SOLD HIM to the sheeple.

And now they say, "Not my fault!! Not my fault!!"

Bullshit.

[orleans]

91. she needs to go before congress. n/t

[ooglymoogly]

92. war = good business....M$M = business...kr

Lies and corruption do not figure as a '-' in that equation.

[lisa58]

93. We all knew it was true - someone finally said it!

[redqueen]

94. "The press corps was under enormous pressure from corporate executives"

WhatwhatWHAT?! You don't say!





Frickin hell... it is honestly hard to believe that some people are really so flippin clueless not to have caught on to this by now.

[Newsjock]

100. IMPORTANT new info from Yellin: She now says the network was MSNBC

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/29/tv-news-under-the... /

Jessica Yellin
Congressional Correspondent

I find myself in an interesting position. Today the blogs lit up with comments I made last night on AC360° and suddenly I’m being reported on.

It’s not the most comfortable position for a reporter.

So let me clarify what I said and what I experienced.

First, this involved my time on MSNBC where I worked during the lead up to war. I worked as a segment producer, overnight anchor, field reporter, and briefly covered the White House, the Pentagon, and general Washington stories.

[IsItJustMe]

101. Don't tell us anything we did not already know. We knew what the media was doing and we continue to

know what a pile of shit and sorry excuse our CORPORATE MSM is.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Over a million Iraqis dead and over 4,000 American troops. God bless America.

[kath]

104. Can you say FASCISM?

I knew you could.

[JerseygirlCT]

107. Good to hear it said, but is anyone here surprised by this?

We've known that's what was happening for years.

[JohnWxy]

109. Another story that won't make the evening news!!!!!

IT's nice to have some explicit documentation that the MSM have been boot-licking ass kissers of the NeoCons!!

Recommended!!

[maddezmom]

110. Locking

Please feel free to repost with the correct infomation.

TV news under the microscope
Posted: 02:21 PM ET

Jessica Yellin
Congressional Correspondent

I find myself in an interesting position. Today the blogs lit up with comments I made last night on AC360° and suddenly I’m being reported on.

It’s not the most comfortable position for a reporter.

So let me clarify what I said and what I experienced.

First, this involved my time on MSNBC where I worked during the lead up to war. I worked as a segment producer, overnight anchor, field reporter, and briefly covered the White House, the Pentagon, and general Washington stories.

more:http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/29/tv-news-under-the...