Robert Scheer of CBS admits

[shraby]

that the Drumheller story is the one they didn't run before the election. The dirty bastid said he agreed not to write about it.

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-scheer/>

[mirandapriestly]

1. Despicable

"The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy."
--Tyler Drumheller, CIA's top spy in Europe.

[shraby]

2. We always suspected they held the story

because of the election..turns out we were right.

[blm]

25. How MANY stories held back for Bush's election does THIS one make now?

NYT held back the NSA spying and wouldn't publish their proof that Bush was wired for the debates.

And DOZENS of DC reporters KNEW that Rove and Libby leaked for the WH when they outed Plame, but NONE of them would admit it, and ALL of them allowed Rove and his operatives all the airtime they wanted to TRASH and DEFAME Joe Wilson as a LIAR for TWO GAWDDAM YEARS.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. I don't know bout you

but I am getting sick and tired of how many times we have been right... even suspecting them holding stories back

[shraby]

4. They have a lot of blood on their hands

and it will never ever wash off.

[Up2Late]

5. Are you blaming Robert Scheer or CBS?

I blame CBS, Robert Scheer did the right thing, CBS is who held it until after the election, not that it would have mattered.

The Bush Lemmings would have still voted for him and the Diebold machine wouldn't have gone away because of it.

[shraby]

6. Both. He should have never agreed to

such a deal, CBS should never have asked for such a deal. If more reporters/jounalists would have stood on principles the outcome may have been very different.
If they had, CBS could never have succeeded in asking them to sign an agreement like that. That was a horrible lapse of morals that cost many young people their lives.

[femmedem]

14. It doesn't sound like the reporters realized it would mean

witholding the news until after the election. According to Scheer, they agreed not to write about the story until after the 60 Minutes story aired--never dreaming the story wouldn't air until now.

Once CBS decided not to go with the 60 Minutes segment, they should have released their reporters from their agreements.

[madokie]

8. sad isn't it.

[Broken Top]

53. Scheer and CBS share equal blame

The fact CBS and Scheer held the story is not surprising. The
mainstream media are nothing more than propagandists for the
Bush administration and while thousands of people suspected it
was deceit and lies Bush & Co. used in the run-up to the
Iraq war, the culpability of the media in taking this country
to war is now evident for all to see. Blood on their hands? 
You bet they have blood on their hands. The entire pit of
vipers from the White House all the way down to the editorial
boards, TV/radio bellowers and corporate CEO's should be in
the dock for war crimes. We are indeed controlled by a Fascist
regime aided by a frightened, cowardly media. With fraud
rampant in the election process, it is going to take a
revolution to destroy the rot that afflicts the nation. 

[acmavm]

7. I don't understand how they can justify holding any story because it

would have influenced the 'election'. THAT WAS THEIR JOB. Provide information to the public to allow them to make an informed choice about who would be in the highest job in this nation.

They just wanted to maintain the status quo. The media are owned by big business and the only entities or people who are benefiting in this country right now are the very rich and big business.

[Disturbed]

9. The Media Corps is part of....

Big Business. The Moguls, their Media Whores and Stockholders have profited from the Illegal Invasion of Iraq and the Occupation.

[Cha]

21. You're right, of course..but in

this savage corporate America the ceos are too afraid to get the Democrats in :scared: :scared:

They would rather see their country get sold down the river than give up their tax breaks and deregulation.

[bdamomma]

29. yea, and the american people being sold down the river also

when will we stand up to these thugs?

[Hubert Flottz]

10. CBS is about shot.

Same as ABC and NBC, you can't trust any of them anymore than you can trust FOX! I'd watched CBS news since I was a kid in the 60s, but I don't watch after the Dan Rather thing. When Dan left CBS I did too.

[lebkuchen]

31. CNN has become Entertainment Tonight

Whenever I happen to see it on base, it's all about entertainment. Amazing, since a war is going on and troops are wounded or dying every day.

The bloggers have taken over MSM. "Create a vacuum and they will fill it."

[LuckyLib]

47. They have all turned into info-tainment. I don't have cable,

only watch it when travelling. OMG, CNN and MSNBC are total trash -- one continuous loop of idiocy. We're not too far off when they'll look up, and we'll ALL on be online for news -- then they can beam drug ads at the only remaining senior citizens left watching.

[lebkuchen]

52. Reason why govt. is now screwing w/internet access?

TV news has become an anachronism compared to what the internet has to offer; one can actually find truth on the WWW with a little persistence.

[Cleita]

39. Me too.

I get my news elsewhere now and very little of it is from TV, either broadcast or cable.

[donheld]

11. Robert Scheer is not of CBS!

He is with Huffington Post.

[Up2Late]

32. Actually, he's syndicated or a freelance writer. He was on this site...

... <http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=20711>
before Huffinton Post even existed.

He has a very long history of writing and reveling info the RW don't want you to know. I don't know much about it, but people always refer to the "Rampart Raid."

Here's a link to one of my favorites from MAY 23, 2001: <http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=11252>

Robert Scheer
CREATORS SYNDICATE
05.23.01

Bush's Faustian deal with the Taliban

Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you. All that matters is that you line up as an ally in the drug war, the only international cause that this nation still takes seriously.

That's the message sent with the recent gift of $43 million to Afghanistan, to be distributed by the an arm of the United Nations. The Taliban, who rule Afghanistan with an iron fist and will almost certainly be able to control the distribution of the aid to their political advantage, are the most virulent anti-American violators of human rights in the world today. The gift, announced last Thursday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in addition to other recent aid, makes the U.S. a major backdoor sponsor of the Taliban and rewards that "rogue regime" for declaring that opium growing is against the will of God. So, too, by the Taliban's estimation, are most human activities, but it's the ban on drugs that catches this administration's attention.

Never mind that Osama bin Laden still operates the leading anti-American terror operation from his base in Afghanistan, from which, among other crimes, he launched two bloody attacks on American embassies in Africa in 1998.

Sadly, the Bush administration is cozying up to the Taliban regime at a time when the United Nations, at U.S. insistence, imposes sanctions on Afghanistan because the Kabul government will not turn over Bin Laden.

(more at link)

<http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=11252>

[Up2Late]

36. More on Scheer and "Ramparts" Magazine...

Check out the list of notable writers who wrote for "Ramparts" below.

<http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ramparts_Magazine>


Robert Scheer...Susan Sontag, Noam Chomsky, Seymour Hersh, James Ridgeway, Pete Hamill, Abbie Hoffman, and Stanley Scheinbaum. Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner got his start there, as did Mother Jones founder Adam Hochschild....

[NewJeffCT]

12. Why?

Was CBS so hurt by the Rather incident that they were afraid to be critical? Or, was it because Sumner Redstone's stated preference to have Republicans in power?

[Junkdrawer]

13. Misleading OP - Sheer simply got advance notice of a 60 Minutes report...

The advance notice required the recipient to not publish the contents until after the report aired. Then CBS kept delaying the report.

Robert Scheer does NOT work for CBS.

Now, if I were a cynical person, I'd say that CBS used this as a tactic to keep the information off the news...oh, wait, I AM cynical.

[KoKo]

44. And remember how CBS fired Rather and Canned Josh Marshall & Linda

Rozen's "Niger Forgeries" article after the RW went after rather and Mapes for exposing Bush's AWOL.

After the RW took them on over AWOL they "canned everything." But, they are culpable for "FEDERAL ELECTION FRAUD" for "Election Tampering" along with EVERY MEDIA OUTLET that "spiked, sat on, diffused or ignored EVERYTHING that would have given KERRY the Win in 04!

Disgusting...Makes me so sick but then I've been sick since "Selection 2000." Would think by now I would have learned to deal with my sense of outrage...

[babylonsister]

15. Huh? Was Drumheller telling his tale prior to 04? nt

[DemReadingDU]

16. The truth comes out, but

How many people are really paying attention. They have been brainwashed by the Republicans that the Republicans are taking care of them, giving them tax cuts, keeping them safe from the terrorists. The Republicans are still in control and still powerful. Even when people go vote in November, they will still vote for the same Republicans. And those voting machines will ensure that the same Republicans are kept in office. I too am very cynical.

[hholli11]

17. I wish we could sue the bastards!!!!

doesn't the Constitution say FREE PRESS??? How are WE THE PEOPLE having access to a free press if they're hiding the truth from us?

[bdamomma]

30. cause we mean shit to these corporations and these thugs

how much more evidence do we need.

[melissinha]

33. CBS has proprietary rights over the segment

not the story though....


HOWEVER, I think its time for a massive boycott of news outlets for CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox and CNN.

From now on it should be C-Span and BBC..... and the blogs.

[flyarm]

18. this story is still being censored,,,,

i watvhed msnbc and cnn all day monday watching for any stories on the 60 minute show..keith olberman was the only one to discuss it...

this was a big story..even this late...and yet there was a total blackout..

this is the new gulag..i feel like my entire life we were told how terrible the KGB was..now i feel like we are living under it!

fly

[WiseButAngrySara]

45. Hardball did, with Gregory covering for Tweety. ....n/t

[suffragette]

50. Right there with you, flyarm

Censorship of news
"Minders" for climate scientists to suppress info on global warming
Secret prisons/gulags
Domestic wiretapping
Vote rigging
Torture

It all combines into one sick system that emulates more and more the worst parts of the old Soviet regime.

[UTUSN]

19. The only (very SLIGHT) consolation is that we here have been correct

------not only about this, but about EVERYTHING-Shrub from Day 1 withOUT the benefit of "intelligence," inside information, or counsel from experts. And I say this with a heavy heart.

[autorank]

20. CBS is hedging it's bets on both sides. They are pathetic. NMN

NMN no more networks They have no function other than to serve the corporate interests of their owners.

This is like the NYT not running this story:

NYT Spikes NSA Domestic Spying Story - 2 Weeks Before Election

[Us vs Them]

22. LET IT GO, PEOPLE

ABC, NBC, CBS. Just let it go. Who gives a fuck what they do. They're all sinking at a rate faster than the earth is warming. Getting your news from these dinosaurs is an outdated meme.

[hootinholler]

24. No. We can't let it go.

Sadly all the mom and pops that get their news from these guys think they are informed.

-Hoot

[asthmaticeog]

27. How many lives is it now that we're to "let go?"

Sickening.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

40. No, we're not letting it go. Most Americans STILL get their news...

...from the major networks, and what they're getting is still not even close to the truth.

They are CRIMINALLY COMPLICIT with the take-over by the NeoCon Junta since long before December 2000. They have aided and abetted the NeoCon Junta since that time.

They are guilty, and they have the same blood on their hands as the NeoCon Junta.

You forget...I can not.

[SeattleRob]

23. Very Dispicable indeed.

To me the entire chain of events, the Rather story on Bush and the "outrage" of the righties was all a big orchestrated event. The only consolation is that Rove is now facing Fitzgerald. He can't pull his usual bullshit tricks on the Prosecutor.

As for the corporate media, this is all business as usual.

[dogday]

26. So now we have 2 stories that were

sat on before the election and were told not to run.... This smells to high heaven:wtf: :hurts: :thumbsdown: :grr:

[ThomCat]

28. Sure, admit it now when it might burnish his reputation a bit

But I'll bet he still won't hesitate to bury stories again in the future. That seems to be the way the corporate media operates. Do dispicable things, then apologize later when it's safe.

[Canuckistanian]

34. That show was amazing even last week

Can you imagine how much a powderkeg it would have been back then?

This one act of withholding probably put Shrub in the White House.

Bastids.

[Supersedeas]

35. another example of Liiiibbbbbraaaaallll bias???

[Taliesihne]

37. What is the best way

To organize an economic boycott of the parent and child affiliates of every news outlet that has been found to be cooperating with a state run propaganda campaign?

Unless advertisers and readers alike stand up and demand journalism by hitting these hacks in the only place they respond too, we will only get more of this in the future.

[slay]

38. Media helps Bush take country to war. 2300+ US soldiers die for the lie

Totally sickening. Thanks CBS, CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC - the blood of the American people, and the Iraqi people, is on your hands. Doing the bidding of idiot psycho neo-cons no less. :( :mad:

[Cleita]

41. That's sad. Robert Scheer was once one of my favorite

journalists. Even back when Bush had high ratings, he stuck his neck out to point out the criminality of this man. It's too bad he got compromised by these filthy people.

[ClintonTyree]

42. Thanks Bob.....

and the rest of the "Liberal" Media as well. Your silence is partly responsible for the deaths of 2,400 American soldiers in Iraq and untold Iraqi deaths as well. Sleep well, do you? :grr:

[emald]

43. liars, all of them

CBS, FOX, CNN, MSNBC, and all the others. Purposefully withholding valid information is lying by omission. Deceiving the american people to further corporate power is whats happening here and it's wrong on so many levels. Corporations and the rich love GWBushit and his mis-administration because of the profits they reap from the war.
Take away the power of corporations. Tax the SOB's till they hurt bad. Time for true patriotic companies to pay their way. 10 billion PROFIT for exxon in one quarter? Lying to keep the dimsun in office is criminal and using profit as an excuse is destroying what once was a great country.
In other words putting corporate profits ahead of truth, ahead of lives, is destroying our country.
Thanks mr scheer for lying for your corporate dimwads. Hope you sleep badly. Hope every life given for this insane war resonates in your brain and allows you no sleep. And as to your bosses, well, what can be said. slugs.

[rainy]

46. Woops!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

48. This will happen again

Corporate media is the propaganda arm of the Republican Party. They had no trouble whatsoever publishing any tiny bit of news surrounding Clinton's sexual escapades. They make me sick. Corporations are the enemy. They're scum and we can't rid ourselves of them.

[BlueJac]

49. Just another fucking traitor.........

Every fucking day I hear more and more shit that real American Patriots would not do. How in the fuck can people sit back a sale this country out. I am outraged, and never thought I would see this in my 56 years. I am not giving up but digging in my heels...........but get pushed back everyday by the news I hear. The original Patriots would not stand for this kind of shit!!


End of rant.....

[ReadTomPaine]

51. By holding these stories - they DID influence the election.

That argument isn't even flimsy, it's non existent.