Kurtz: Media won’t cover Pentagon propaganda ‘because they are embarrassed.’»

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/05/kurtz-media-won%e2%80%99t-cover-pentagon-propaganda-%e2%80%98because-they-are-embarrassed%e2%80%99/


Kurtz: Media won’t cover Pentagon propaganda ‘because they are embarrassed.’»

In a washingtonpost.com online chat today, the Post’s media critic Howard Kurtz was asked why the television news media have largely failed to report on the Pentagon propaganda operation revealed recently by the New York Times. Kurtz said the media is too embarrassed to report the story:

Toronto: Hi Howard — kudos for last Sunday’s focus on the New York Times’s Pentagon propaganda story. Why do you think the networks still are silent on this? The comments on Brian Williams’s blog are at a boiling point — I’m surprised NBC hasn’t shut it down yet!

Howard Kurtz: I can only conclude that the networks are staying away from what would otherwise be a legitimate news story because they are embarrassed about what some of their military analysts did or don’t want to give the controversy more prominence.

Later in the same online chat, Kurtz said, “The networks are ducking this one, big time.”

[magellan]

1. Actually it's because they're guilty as charged. n/t

[babylonsister]

2. There's that, and you're right, they are all guilty. nt

[spanone]

3. yea, fuck that democracy stuff, someone may get embarassed....

great googley moogley

[Rageneau]

4. We need a news media to cover the news media

[Disturbed]

5. US Corp Media mostly ignores this to avoid being

part of the Criminal Charges that will ensue.

[Marr]

6. Networks don't get "embarrassed". They aren't reporting the story because

it exposes their complicity.

"Embarrassed". What a ludicrous comment.