"There has been a striking consolidation of the media from hundreds of firms to an industry dominated by less than ten enormous transnational conglomerates. The largest ten media firms own all US TV networks, most TV stations, all major film studios, all major music companies, nearly all cable TV channels, much of the book and magazine publishing industry... A few weeks after the war began in Afghanistan, CNN president Issacson authorized CNN to provide two different versions of the war: a more critical one for the global audience and a sugarcoated one for Americans..." Robert McChesney.

"What's going on is a belief that you can manipulate trust between the leadership and the led. There was a time in South Africa when people would put flaming tires around people's necks if they dissented. In some ways the fear now in the US is that you will have a flaming tire (lack of patriotism) put around your neck." Dan Rather

"After Peter Salinger claimed that a US Navy missile had accidentially downed TWA Flight 800, that same day, the FBI's Jim Kallstrom called a press conference. A a man raised his hand and asked why the Navy was involved in the recovery and investigation while a possible suspect. 'Remove him,' Kallstrom yelled. Two men leapt over to the questioner and grabbed him by the arms. There was a momentary chill in the air after the guy had been dragged from the room. Kallstrom was later hired by CBS." Kristina Borjesson, Emmy award winner.

"Case after case was killed by CIA and State Dep't intervention and there wasn't a thing we could do about it. In 1980, CIA-recruited mercenaries and drug traffickers unseated Bolivia's democratically elected president. Immediately after the coup, cocaine production increased massively. The CIA along with State and Justice Departments had to protect their drug-dealing assets by destroying a DEA investigation. I sat down at my desk and wrote evidence of my charges. I addressed it to Newsweek. Three weeks later DEA's internal security called to notify me that I was under investigation." Mike Levine, former DEA Agent.

Meanwhile, back in the USA...

I'm quite mixed about this whole situation becasue it the press were bought and corrupted by our gov't when it allowed media consolidation which is nothing more than a HUGE,HUGE,HUGE monoply. The MSM got what they wanted and in return gave fealty to the Bush admin by airing only right wing bias Bushie favorable press coverage.

And now they wonder why they are irrelevant and losing readership, it's because no one trusts them, I certainly don't and that is why I get my information and news from media outisde of America, from Kaleej Times to Ha'aretz, to the Glasgow Times to the Delhi Times to Der Spiegal to Die Frankfort Allgemeine Zeitung as well as some Alternate media in the U.S.

Bush, Rove, Dick Morris et.al. have totally corrupted the American media.

So when these press people complain about Bush, Gonzales and the Rethug party threatening them I just really don't care anymore.

They deserve what they get. They have abrogated their journalistic responsibility to INFORM 'we the people' as now they only help Bush and the Rethugs lie and mislead 'we the people'. So they are getting exactly what they deserve. Journalists have now become nothing more than prostitutes for the Rethug party.

Other than Keith Olbermann and Lou Dobbs I hope the Republicans throw them all the other journalists in jail and I will not rise to their defense.

Maybe the Dems will help the MSM, although I can't imagine why for what the MSM did to the Dems and will continue to do. In case you don't think msm won't attack the Dems, they are already doing that and the Dems are not even in power yet.

The Republicans, Bush&Co, the corporatocracy, the neocons and the theocons now threaten and control and will control the msm and just continue to lie to 'we the people'.

When msm lying ends and becomes fair not just shills for Karl Rove and their reporting matches what I read in overseas media then and maybe I will voice some need to protect the media. I hope Gonzales and Rove throw them all in jail and turn them into automatons full of fear just as I have been full of fear and still am at the shredding of our Constitution and the demise of democracy in my beloved America.

Are all reporters just to stupid to see what is going on. The only msm that has attempted to do an almost reasonable job of serving the people are The New York Times and The Washington Post. On cable only Keith Olbermann and Lou Dobbs have done a credible to very good job to accurately inform 'we the people'. Fox News and Glenn Beck at CNN are the very worst.

Rupert Murdoch, the catholic, the biggest telecarrier of porn and the endless source of phony news in america should have Glenn Beck, Paula Zahn, Joe Scarborough,Tucker Carlson, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Peggy Noonan, Phyliss Schlafly and so many other working for his empire of phony nes and pornography. I guess the screaming Bill O'Reill and Sean Hannity must like working for a porono empire which also shills for the Catholic Church. But then the Catholic Church, my church, has so many pedophile and gay priests that I suppose that is why they do not excoriate Fox News and News Corp. there must be some logic in there somewhere that the Catholic Church is fully aligned with the Rethug party and the endless lies of georgie boy Bush.

Is that the FBI/CIA knocking at my door.

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