Conyers' congressional panel says media drifting toward tabloid coverage

[steve2470]

http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw116241_20050524.htm

May 24, 2005, 5:38 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The American media has drifted toward tabloid journalism and has been cowtailed by the Bush administration over its coverage of events such as the war in Iraq, a congressional panel organized by Michigan Rep. John Conyers said Tuesday.

"The vast majority of the mainstream media is not only unwilling to accurately report on the failings of the administration, but the few who do have fallen victim to scapegoating and retribution," said Conyers, a Democrat. "We have turned from breaking stories like Watergate and the Iran-Contra scandal to celebrity journalism."

Conyers organized the hearing in the aftermath of Newsweek's retraction of a report that claimed investigators had found evidence the Quran was desecrated by interrogators at the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay.

He recently led 88 members in Congress in writing President Bush to demand information about reports in the British media that the United States and Great Britain secretly agreed to invade Iraq in the summer of 2002.



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[donco6]

1. Drifting?

It's been full steam ahead for the last 13 years. Where have they been?

[MazeRat7]

5. Exactly... but even calling it a "drift" implies unintentional error...

No, its been more like "course laid-in...engage #1"...

MZr7

[knowbody0]

2. it is blatant propoganda now

[Brian Morans]

3. I stopped watching back before the war

it was giving me an ulcer.

[HuskiesHowls]

4. It used to be called "yellow journalism" because of the paper,

now, I guess it could be called "journalism that's yellow".

[La Coliniere]

6. Newspeak...

Orwell not is not only rolling in his grave, he's accepting the Celestial Truth in Reporting and Prognosticating Award.

[paineinthearse]

7. See JC's blog

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1807719

CSPAN taped the event, to be broadcast at a later time and/or streamed. Watch www.cspan.org for schedule.