I'm really starting to get pissed! Here we have MSM going on and on about Scotts 'Betrayal' while they themselves are to blame. I think they know that. You had Wolf Blizter reflecting about it yesterday. But, how soon they moved on. WTF?

Yellin: Not in that exact…they wouldn’t say it in that way, but they would edit my pieces. They would push me in different directions. They would turn down stories that were more critical and try to put on pieces that were more positive.

I've been saying that for years... reporters can be the most liberal bunch in the world, but it's the bosses that call the shots. Hence, no liberal media.

More truth dribbling out, now why can't they all line up and speak together about the bush lies and threats...shame on them all for fu*k*ng Americans over!

The media has always censored wartime news. Mainly because the public at home would be horrified at what bullets and shrapnel can do to bodies, and at soldiers' actions. That's not what's bad about this (though it's pretty bad). What's bad is that nobody had the stones to say anything about this when it was going on, instead of waiting until four years after the deed is done and saying "Whoops! Sorry, my bad!"

Bison @ 7:

Who would have ever thought that consolidating the media into tightly held monopoly's owned by rich right wing republicans could ever stoop to manipulating the American public!

Is it time to change the name of our country from America to Americorp yet?

You think this is new? Google "Spanish-American War". That war was explicitly a media creation by the first corporations.

If we change the name to Americorp, the change will only validate a long-standing trend.

Too many of us reconized the truth from the beginning, so this was a fraud brought onto citizens on purspose for the enrichment of the few....Treason!!!!! charge both the bushies and the news and make them all pay with jail and $$$$ fines to help our robbed empty coffers!

Can we impeach now? Hey Harry and Nancy, how much more do you need? We the American people are speaking up! Do you frigging job and impeach already!

The media is just as angry and scared as Bush & co. Bloody hands everywhere.

Yeah, and so many of us have been pressured, but not all of us have lost our personal integrity to tow the party line. Weak and apathetic... these journalists and news media personnel who do not do the right thing, but rather bend over for whomever their "bosses" are. Pathetic!

Left&Left @ 9:

I'll never buy or read fat Scotty's blood soaked book, but the way he has exposed the Bush crime family and the many propaganda whores in the MSM who are all accessories to murder, is a beautiful thing.

I plan to read it. But only if I can steal it.

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I'm sorry, but these "revelations" are not News. Anyone with a brain the size of a peanut knew wft was going! Of course, the Press will certainly try to absolve themselves of any blame in this fiasco. There should be a National Day of mourning for the Press, in which everyone turn off their TVs and Radios.

Kathleen @ 11:

Katie Couric, Chris Matthews, Russert etc all drowning in the 4ooo and counting Americans who have needlessly died in Iraq along with the over one million Iraqi people. Will they ever say their sorry? Will they ever admit their complicity. WILL THEY APPLY WHAT THEY SHOULD HAVE LEARNED AND START ASKING HARD DRIVING QUESTIONS ABOUT THE UNSUBSTANTIATED CLAIMS THAT THEY HAVE ALLOWED TO BE REPEATED ON THEIR PROGRAMS ABOUT IRAN? I WILL NOT BE HOLDING MY BREATH.

Until then thanks for the internet

Dem congressman calls on McClellan to testify about book's revelations
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Dem_congressman_calls_on_McClellan_to_0528...

Why is McClellan waiting so long to release this book?

Just went through archives at Raw Story nothing there about Norman's arrest?

Can you believe it? Scotties book is earth-shattering, and yet all over MSM is going on about gay marriage. CBS, ABC, CNN it is their top story! Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. . .

WakeUpAmerica @ 24:

I'm sorry, but these "revelations" are not News. Anyone with a brain the size of a peanut knew wft was going! Of course, the Press will certainly try to absolve themselves of any blame in this fiasco. There should be a National Day of mourning for the Press, in which everyone turn off their TVs and Radios.

The blogosphere took off after the lying chickenshits in the press rolled over before the invasion. They need to connect the dots...the public is starting to.

P.D. @ 28:

Can you believe it? Scotties book is earth-shattering, and yet all over MSM is going on about gay marriage. CBS, ABC, CNN it is their top story! Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. . .

Congressman Wexler pushing for Scottie testifying before congress

I'm desperately looking for a copy of the NBC produced documentary; Operation Iraqi Freedom, with the special intro by Tom Brokaw. It's bound to be a real collector's item and worth as much as a tank of gas, someday. Can anyone help me out?

General_Rennenkampf @ 8:

The media has always censored wartime news. Mainly because the public at home would be horrified at what bullets and shrapnel can do to bodies, and at soldiers' actions. That's not what's bad about this (though it's pretty bad). What's bad is that nobody had the stones to say anything about this when it was going on, instead of waiting until four years after the deed is done and saying "Whoops! Sorry, my bad!"

Sorry, this isn't about "censoring wartime news" so as not to upset the delicate sensibilities of the American public.

This is about an administration that took office with a plan (read the PNAC docs) to dominate the middle east, for starters, and then to implement their Pax Americana.

This is about men (and women) at the highest levels of our government creating a New Pearl Harbor to scare the beejesus out of citizens so they could invade and occupy a soverign nation inorder to steal their resources (oil) and build permanent forward military bases for the US.

This is about the unitary executive and the usurpation of the rights and freedoms guaranteed in our Constitution.

This is about corporate greed (you know, the military industrial complex) and the ascension of the next "ruling class."

Scott McClellan finally understood the truth and has demonstrated great courage in exposing it - even if he'll be making a lot of money from the book (He'll need that cash to hire bodyguards). Looks like maybe he's started a new trend as others are beginning to talk.

Who created the myth of the 'liberal media'? What liberal media?The past 8 years the media has been totally pro Bush- Hell, they've ignored protests that turned out tens of thousands of citizens, and always spin things to put Bush in a positive light- What is chilling is the right wing seems to feel we serve Bush- when in fact he serves us!

Thank god for Keith Olberman and Sam Seder...

All aboard the Scott McClellan train!

P.D. @ 35:

Kathleen, at least someone is doing something! I'm tired of banging my head against the wall!

Millions banging their heads against that wall with you. Eventually it will crack

Well, she's dead...

Her career, anyway...

Well...it would seem that there's quite a bit of ass-covering going on in the media....if it weren't so damn serious, it would be amusing.

Mike the Canuck @ 23:

There's a show on the CBC here called "As It Happens". The show is rebroadcast on PBS radio in the US late at night from what I understand. One part of the is the listener talk back where listeners are invited to call in and leave their comments. I was listening one night when much to my astonishment the former host of "ABC nightline"(I've forgotten his name) called in. He said he listened to "As It Happens" driving home after his show and had to call in. He complimented the women working on the show for asking the politicians in the US "tough questions the US media was too afraid to ask"

So yah I think your media didn't want to ask the tough questions

Ted Koppel.
But read up on what MSNBC did to shut up Phil Donahue ...

Amy Goodman on DemocracyNow.org has been telling the truth about this mess since it started ... (and her Katrina coverage alone should have won them every award going ...)

Barbara and Carol on AIH are gold. And funny at the same time.

pressure on journalists from their corporate leaders? I'm shocked.

At least maybe his book coming out now will deter the media from hyping another war in Iran.

Does this lend any more credence to Dan Rather's story about the chimp?

The Military Industrial Complex needed another war simply put. It reminds me how accurate this timeless song is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzSU0d5vG6k

P.D. @ 54:

Rupert Murdoch is saying Democrats are going to win big. Should I be happy, or run screaming?

Bolt everything you own down.

David Gregory lost all credibility whaen he was rapping with Rove at the correspondants dinner. What a tool!

I remember how when the Monica Lewinsky story broke a very conceited and pompous sam donaldson said, "If this is true, he (Bubba) can't last another six months."

Not only did Clinton survive the six months, he got reelected, and survived a partisan driven impeachment attempt.

And there never was even so much as a, "Oops...my bad!" from donaldson.

L.A. Confidential @ 59:

P.D. @ 54:

Rupert Murdoch is saying Democrats are going to win big. Should I be happy, or run screaming?

Bolt everything you own down.

Running and bolting are synonymous.

It proves the wealthy ivy league college media types don't have the education enough to admit when their wrong.

curtilingus @ 60:

The press is taking this worse than the whitehouse. You really should watch meridith Viera's interview with McClellan. She tears into him for fifteen minutes with drilling questions and a bias that she wears on her sleeve. She spoke mostly of his character and not the merit of his allegations (Survivor show mentality)

Condi rice, DICK Cheney would never sit still for fifteen minutes for a today show interview and it would be cut if she were to ask questions like she did to Scott.

I think the interview proved Scott's asertion that the media is deferential to the white house. Watch it on msnbc.com

I saw that this morning and felt the same way. She sounded more like a police interrogator than an interviewer.

For whatever reason David Gregory is reacting to this very strangely. Was he just pretending in press conferences when he asked the "tough" questions? Was he the "designated" tough reporter? It makes me wonder.

Look how good Bush looks.

Yellow Elephant Safari @ 20:

Left&Left @ 9:

I'll never buy or read fat Scotty's blood soaked book, but the way he has exposed the Bush crime family and the many propaganda whores in the MSM who are all accessories to murder, is a beautiful thing.

I plan to read it. But only if I can steal it.

True that. Let's all steal a copy!

pissed off patricia @ 69:

curtilingus @ 60:

The press is taking this worse than the whitehouse. You really should watch meridith Viera's interview with McClellan. She tears into him for fifteen minutes with drilling questions and a bias that she wears on her sleeve. She spoke mostly of his character and not the merit of his allegations (Survivor show mentality)

Condi rice, DICK Cheney would never sit still for fifteen minutes for a today show interview and it would be cut if she were to ask questions like she did to Scott.

I think the interview proved Scott's asertion that the media is deferential to the white house. Watch it on msnbc.com

I saw that this morning and felt the same way. She sounded more like a police interrogator than an interviewer.

For whatever reason David Gregory is reacting to this very strangely. Was he just pretending in press conferences when he asked the "tough" questions? Was he the "designated" tough reporter? It makes me wonder.

I can't watch MSM....when I do...makes me quite angry....

hillwilliam @ 73:

Yellow Elephant Safari @ 20:

Left&Left @ 9:

I'll never buy or read fat Scotty's blood soaked book, but the way he has exposed the Bush crime family and the many propaganda whores in the MSM who are all accessories to murder, is a beautiful thing.

I plan to read it. But only if I can steal it.

True that. Let's all steal a copy!

You know, y'all can always eventually check it out of the lending libraries.

Howard Dean's Worse Than Watergate is a very good read about the boosh early years and Iraq, even though he was involved with Watergate.

L.A. Confidential @ 74:

Hello Hal do you read me?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcNkMIwolKc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7gWB7IzxtU

curtilingus @ 60:

The press is taking this worse than the whitehouse. You really should watch meridith Viera's interview with McClellan. She tears into him for fifteen minutes with drilling questions and a bias that she wears on her sleeve. She spoke mostly of his character and not the merit of his allegations (Survivor show mentality)

Condi rice, DICK Cheney would never sit still for fifteen minutes for a today show interview and it would be cut if she were to ask questions like she did to Scott.

I think the interview proved Scott's asertion that the media is deferential to the white house. Watch it on msnbc.com

I listened a few minutes to Mark Davis on WBAP. He's pissed about the book and lashing out at everyone that doesn't love George Bush. Mark Davis is our local Right Wingnut in Dallas. He wants to be Rush Limbaugh. He's in syndication, so I know folks outside of Texas get to hear his rants.

http://www.wbap.com

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Real journalists like Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales weren't scared of asking tough questions at ANY time. AND they were reporting how the corporate media were complicit in the Bush Propaganda from day one.

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STOP George @ 84:

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Hmm...

Real journalists like Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales weren't scared of asking tough questions at ANY time. AND they were reporting how the corporate media were complicit in the Bush Propaganda from day one.

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I wonder if Keith Olbermann is the only one who honors the memory of Edward R Murrow?

Didnt anybody see "Wag the Dog"?
Its all right theres ...

I remember during the 2004 convention there was a on stage discussion group with top new anchors from the major networks. The question was ask if they felt any responsibility that surveys were saying that something like %70 of the American people believed that Iraq was directly behind 9/11. Of course to a man they felt that they had done their job well and reported that there was no connection between Iraq and 9/11. I was yelling at the TV that when you let Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfled, and all the rest of these crooks repeatedly say 9/11 and Saddam and Iraq in the same sentence without any blow back it is the same as reporting the connection.

♠Bangkok-Bob♠ @ 50:

Can it possibly be that there are THAT many people who don't reason in America, who can't read bits here and there and draw their own conclusions?

Yes. What percentage of Americans do you think have read an entire long (3000+ words) article about the war? I would bet it's well under 10%.

So Scott McClellan is a hero now after having been an accomplice in all this stuff?

Johnny wand @ 85:

STOP George @ 84:

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Real journalists like Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales weren't scared of asking tough questions at ANY time. AND they were reporting how the corporate media were complicit in the Bush Propaganda from day one.

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I wonder if Keith Olbermann is the only one who honors the memory of Edward R Murrow?

Keith and Mike Malloy are the only two media people I trust.

Sigh.

In fencing, there is a strategy called "Fencing with second intention". The idea is to deliberately expose a strategy, in order to draw a corresponding strategy from your opponent, all with the intention of utilising a DIFFERENT strategy to defeat him. It's a little more complicated than a single 'feint'.

So - the "Librul" corporate media is going to SLOWLY start the 'mea culpas' - as the Bush Administration winds down. "Yes, well perhaps - perhaps we WERE a little complicit - perhaps we should have focussed harder on asking tough questions. Yes, yes perhaps the left wing bloggers have something there. In fact, we're going to start listening to them. In fact they have EXACTLY THE RIGHT IDEA. Now then, there is a NEW ADMINISTRATION starting up - time to roll out the new flashy graphics, and the new "WE ASK THE ADMINISTRATION TOUGH QUESTIONS NOW" programming."

Just in time for Obama. How can the 'left' complaign?

pissed off patricia @ 31:

I'm sure I'm gonna be covered in rotten tomatoes for saying this, but I watched Scotty this morning on an interview. I felt he was like a man who doesn't see all the signs that his wife is cheating until he discovers that she is. Then he looks back and the signs were glaring, he just didn't see them at the time.

I think now that he has been out of the white house for a while, hears and sees what is happening from an outsiders point of view, he has looked back and realizes the signs were all there that things were tragically wrong. But at the time, he just didn't see them that clearly.

POP: Good point and observation. Wonder if Tony Snowjob will ever do the same?

As much as I like to see this sort of thing happen (better late than never) I cant stop thinking that even if all of this hadnt happened: The press corp had pushed the president harder, mcclellan hadnt felt like he was forced to lie, the public had known the "truth"... Does anyone seriously believe that we would be in a different position?

If we had known then what we know now, and public opinion leading up to March of 2003 had been what it is now, does anyone think that Bush would give two shits and second guess himself? He has said himself on many occasions that polls don't really mean much to him....

Just sayin.

pissed off patricia @ 98:

L.A., I haven't heard anyone call him a hero or anything close to that. His book simply started a conversation in the media that should have began long long ago.

Right. By tomorrow the media will have shape shifted to something else though to dominate and distract people from reality.

And it will be back to business as unusual.

Murdoch: "Rock Star" Obama Will Win. . . How's that for an eye catcher?

Im guessing that this is paving the way for a MSM that wont believe ANYTHING the next democrat president and administration says.

Kevin @ 101:

As much as I like to see this sort of thing happen (better late than never) I cant stop thinking that even if all of this hadnt happened: The press corp had pushed the president harder, mcclellan hadnt felt like he was forced to lie, the public had known the "truth"... Does anyone seriously believe that we would be in a different position?

If we had known then what we know now, and public opinion leading up to March of 2003 had been what it is now, does anyone think that Bush would give two shits and second guess himself? He has said himself on many occasions that polls don't really mean much to him....

Just sayin.

Under those circumstances, perhaps Congress wouldn't have been so willing to give him the vote to go to war. But, I'm not sure.

pissed off patricia @ 107:

Kevin @ 101:

As much as I like to see this sort of thing happen (better late than never) I cant stop thinking that even if all of this hadnt happened: The press corp had pushed the president harder, mcclellan hadnt felt like he was forced to lie, the public had known the "truth"... Does anyone seriously believe that we would be in a different position?

If we had known then what we know now, and public opinion leading up to March of 2003 had been what it is now, does anyone think that Bush would give two shits and second guess himself? He has said himself on many occasions that polls don't really mean much to him....

Just sayin.

True, but it was still a republican congress (both houses) at the time of the start.

I dont know, I just don't have much faith in the ability of our leaders to listen to public opinion.

Under those circumstances, perhaps Congress wouldn't have been so willing to give him the vote to go to war. But, I'm not sure.

where's a missing blonde when you need one?
Inquiring minds want to know.

It was pretty obvious to me what was going on back then.
Sometime in February of 2003 I abandoned the waste of time that was spent watching the Network News channels. Coverage had become a 24/7 infomercial to promote War, champion the War mongers and demonize the opposition.

The lies the MSM told and are still telling are the true obscenity, nudity and swear words pale in comparison to the obscenity of real life tearing and obliterating of 100,000's of lives which has resulted from the lie telling.
Where is the FEC to dole out $500K fines for each lie?

come on folks! its not like these news whores had any options !who would have let them even dare to speak the truth? thier employer? general electric, exxon, big oil, and the rest of the corporations who own america, how many would delberatly cut thier own throuts for you? its not like you havent got a brain and the freewill to figure it out for yourself , oh wait you watched the so called debates to , and came to what conclusion? one that they thought the candidates were stupid ! two that they thought you were more stupid then the candidates? guess its a hobsons choice!

P.D. @ 28:

Can you believe it? Scotties book is earth-shattering, and yet all over MSM is going on about gay marriage. CBS, ABC, CNN it is their top story! Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. . .

pay no attention to the Trueh behind that same-sex wedding cake...mmm...cake.

The Corp-Gov media is so corrupt... it makes the NICKELODEON CHANNEL look like hard news.

Liber8tor @ 119:

The Corp-Gov media is so corrupt... it makes the NICKELODEON CHANNEL look like hard news.

What about Disney news?

It's only hard news when the fluffy-bunny anchorwoman reads it topless.

I wonder what Helen Thomas thinks of the book?

MountainMan23 @ 124:

I'm just glad it's all finally coming out.

Me too, but I think since everyone knew all of this long long ago, its not a shocker.

Corporate media is a joke. Period.

Beelzebud @ 21:

I have to admit, I am a bit stunned by this move by Simple Scott.

Watching David Gregory on MSNBC with his panel of guests from the Washington DC press corps, angrily denying that they were shills for the administration, was comedy gold.

Watching Chris Matthews be SHOCKED, shocked I tell you!, at the fact that the administration used propaganda to sell a war, was just unbelievable.

Hey idiot in the mainstream press: Sometimes those Left Leaning Blogs are CORRECT. It's PATHETIC watching these incompetent jackasses feign surprise at these "revelations" from Simple Scott. It's stuff the reality based community has knows since 2002.

It's too bad the Democrats are for the most part cowards. This crew should have been impeached years ago.

Yeah, watching Gregory last night I thought that my head would explode.
I kept seeing him doing his "rap" with Rove at the correspondent's dinner.
No. Credibility. At. All.

"Cooper: You had pressure from news executives to put on positive stories about the President?"

AC is SHOCKED!

What BS!

StevenMN @ 130:

L.A. Confidential @ 103:

pissed off patricia @ 98:

L.A., I haven't heard anyone call him a hero or anything close to that. His book simply started a conversation in the media that should have began long long ago.

Right. By tomorrow the media will have shape shifted to something else though to dominate and distract people from reality.

And it will be back to business as unusual.

It already has. Yesterday it was the headline of the day with the media defending itself and today its a sidebar.

Last night's NBC interview with Brokaw made me gag. He said the media should be judged in the context of the day and EVERYONE believed Iraq had WMD's in the lead-up to war. He went so far as to compare Bush to Truman, and said in his day Truman was a very unpopular president but now is considered one of America's best.

They're all circling the f*cking wagons. Everybody...Quick...C.Y.A.

The fact is that the news media and "journalism" has almost ALWAYS been a shill for their corporate masters. To think otherwise is naive. This is all about perspective, and for most of us it is a warped one. Many of us where brought up in the days of Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow. We have a romantic idea that it is people like this that show how the news is supposed to be done.

The sad truth is that those men and people like them where a blip on the radar in the propaganda machine that is media. Guys of the ilk of William Randolph Hearst are and always have been much more prevalent.

I was curious about which network Yellin was with during the run-up to the war and to see which network had execs putting pressure on her and editing her stories. Surprisingly... MSNBC was where she was.

From her Bio:

Jessica Yellin (born February 25, 1971 in Los Angeles, California) was a White House correspondent for the ABC News program Good Morning America, as well as for other ABC News programs. Yellin had been with ABC News since July 2003, after previously working for MSNBC.

There was a day when a million people turned out in New York City, and millions more around the globe to protest the war. To say, We the People do not want this war.

The police said they do not do crowd estimates. Them media reported perhaps 100,000 people in the streets. These same streets were filled from the lower to the upper east and west sides. I've seen 100,000 people, they take the A train every day.

The media is controlled by self-interest as it is in actual message shaping. Blogs, internet trolls, and citizen journalists have more to say than Columbia University (tm) educated graduates and the laundry soap commercials they bridge.

Same on us for listening to this clatter. Shame on us for not taking to the streets again and again until our will was heard. Every time you fill up at the gas station, remind yourself, YOU DID NOT DO ENOUGH to stop this war.

CNN is not to be trusted .
A. Cooper former student at Langley ( CIA) isn't to be trusted either , because it's not only what they say , it's what they DON'T say either .

Gaza humanitarian Crises- is not one the radar screen at all , no report about the food shortage , over 40 % suffer from malnutrition . " Not worthy Victims " , because CNN protects U.s. foreign policy with Israel .
Somalia - You wouldn't know that the U.S. is leading an attack on the small impoverished country , training and funding Ethiopian Troops , that have been charged with killing civilians , looting and rape . Not to mention the U.S. air strikes going on , totally unreported .
Not surprising since abe Vreis discovered several years back , that CNN hired Psyops from U.S. military intelligence as " INTERNs " .

Keep a look out for their manufacturing Consent for U.S. foreign policy , that leads to aggressive military action , against NIGERIA , frequently linking " terrorism " to OIL IN NIGERIA . add to the mix CNN constantly hyping a CHINA military " threat " hyping their military build up , when its less than 10 % of our budget .

I was more disgusted with Cooper's bad feigning of surprise at Yellin's assertions.

Yeah, he was really shocked over that revelation. Enough bashing of Yellin for having gone along with it so she could remain employed. How about we question why Cooper felt the need to pretend that this is some odd and outlandish accusation, the likes of which he just can't fathom as going on in any major news organization? Especially one at which he worked himself, ya know.

why is everyone so angry???

we knew all about this

in pbs frontline series about the runup to war they talked about this, but none of the newspeople ever said this so bluntly

the news media are no longer our watchdogs...they care about ratings

If she was working for MSNBC in the run-up to the war time frame, then that explains it. MSNBC could not jump on that bandwagon fast enough. Phil Donahue is the most perfect example of that. In addition, that is the time when they hired all the right-wingers they could get their hands on. That is how they ended up with Tucker Carlson and Joe Scarborough. Now they can't figure out what to do with either one of them. MSNBC is Not to be trusted, even with KO.

1984 !

Only absolute confirmation of a Fascist state.

Control the media, control the minds.