Wednesday, September 29, 2004
I'm pushing an elephant up the stairs...
The Great Beyond
Salon Magazine has the scoop on why CBS is letting the Elephant (GOP) intimidate them into not running their story on Bush's deceptive case for invading Iraq:
Salon goes on to say that there's nothing actually new revealed in the story by 60 Minutes' Ed Bradley. Apparently 60 Minutes gave Salon a copy of the video on their story. But due to the craven cowardice of the heads of CBS' news division, the piece will not be seen before the election.
I continue to be amazed by the power of the right wing echo chamber to bring people to their knees. This "squeaky wheel" minority is exercising immense power to silence relevant and important issues...while beating the drum of such minor inanity such as the color of Kerry's tan.
There's no accountability for the folks at Fox News or CNN for giving the Swift Boat hours of air time without vetting them and giving little or no rebuttal time. Judith Miller of the New York Times wrote story after story on Iraq's WMD....yet still has her job and has never issued a retraction, much less an apology.
And now we have a major news source cowardly refusing to run a very serious and important story because they think it will make them look bad. I weep for the loss of journalistic integrity in this country. The havoc wreaked by the rightwing machine against the Fourth Estate will take generations to heal, if it can heal at all.
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Salon Magazine has the scoop on why CBS is letting the Elephant (GOP) intimidate them into not running their story on Bush's deceptive case for invading Iraq:
By relying on documents that could not be absolutely authenticated from a blind source to make the otherwise irrefutable case that George W. Bush shirked his National Guard duties in the early 1970s, CBS anchor Dan Rather dealt the credibility of journalism a "body blow," according to Washington Post ombudsman Michael Getler. But just how damaging was that blow?
One measure of the debacle is a "60 Minutes Wednesday" segment that millions of viewers now will now not see: a hard-hitting report making a powerful case that in trying to build support for the Iraq war, the Bush administration either knowingly deceived the American people about Saddam Hussein's nuclear capabilities or was grossly credulous. CBS news president Andrew Heyward spiked the story this week, saying it would be "inappropriate" during the election campaign.
Salon goes on to say that there's nothing actually new revealed in the story by 60 Minutes' Ed Bradley. Apparently 60 Minutes gave Salon a copy of the video on their story. But due to the craven cowardice of the heads of CBS' news division, the piece will not be seen before the election.
I continue to be amazed by the power of the right wing echo chamber to bring people to their knees. This "squeaky wheel" minority is exercising immense power to silence relevant and important issues...while beating the drum of such minor inanity such as the color of Kerry's tan.
There's no accountability for the folks at Fox News or CNN for giving the Swift Boat hours of air time without vetting them and giving little or no rebuttal time. Judith Miller of the New York Times wrote story after story on Iraq's WMD....yet still has her job and has never issued a retraction, much less an apology.
And now we have a major news source cowardly refusing to run a very serious and important story because they think it will make them look bad. I weep for the loss of journalistic integrity in this country. The havoc wreaked by the rightwing machine against the Fourth Estate will take generations to heal, if it can heal at all.
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