when you have someone who lived the experience itself was talking about the
horrors of war
who's got the documentary evidence that videotape the photographs
where is the corporate media they're busy beating the drums for war and these
young people
their stories still dating and what do you think that is the allow let me talk
about the leading to the invasion
the group fairness and accuracy in reporting in next two week period around
colin powell giving them push for the former secretary of state of the united
nations and every of two thousand three when it's so important when people are
making up their minds what is known trustee says the media is manufacturing
consent
manufacturing consent for work
fair did a study of the formation acme newscasts n_b_c_ nightly news c_b_s_
evening news a_b_c_ world news tonight and the p_b_s_
news hour with jim lehrer
there were three hundred ninety three interviews done around more in two weeks
guess how many were with antiwar leaders abhi almost four hundred interviews
it's gotta be somewhere between zero and three
you've got a three that's about underestimated zero apprenticeship
problem almost four hundred that is no longer mainstream media
that is an extremist media beating the drums for war
one member of the time newsies
which uprising
of antiwar protest marches and shatter a lot like i didn't exist
millions of people rocked the world for page maverick separate fifteen i do know
three i mean millions just in the united states not to mention all over the world
you know what that merits of the united states in the media
can you get a picture then you get a photograph in the front page of the
paper if you're lucky we'll see the reverse of people video
but what about interviewing one of them custodes
he said most people in america don't identify with masses of people
protesting what about bringing one of them into a corporate networks to be
unsafe tell me why would you retake off on the weekends when you could be with
your family when you could be relaxing
in a dead of winter interest for you
easing called back for a brief fifteen
and it's because people care soaking in water widening covering it the biggest
decline
and i could have been active as someone who went up the ranks of the reporters
that are on television
that would have been an editor or reporter and if you pass me hate should
we covered this essay obviously that's an interesting story so widely letting
the interesting stories go well i think that titles have our bus pretty much
tell that story
are i write the best of my brother david weekend three at the first one was in
two thousand four so we're dealing with that beginning of the war
and the book was called the exception to the release because that's what the
media should be the exception to the rulers movie and or i think we answer
that question with
this simple firm
the access the phone
right not the access the access and even reporting a straight through
for access if they can come back to their nation and say hi got a quote from
vice president cheney nor on my back from the president
or i got a quote from the secretary of state you're making your way up the
corporate ladder
but if you were asking seriously critical questions and should have been
asked that that seventy none other than scott mcclellan himself
the white house press spokesperson he's not only saying that push my and
national committee is focusing on he's also saying why weren't you guys in the
corporate media harder on
the and scott mcclellan this is a part of the story
that has to be told zak is astounding seat down in the i've had commerce
reporters in washington on the off the record
you've got a disaster right
this is the issues access
any gift for wasn't out by the bush administration which they did all the
time you are a lot of trouble can you drop was in jeopardy
they didn't have that ready that feed their kids right and so it's clear
simple accordingly
occupy of very special positions journalists and it's not enough to say
you know you got it play it safe
there is a reason why our profession journalism
is the only one explicitly protected by the u_s_ constitution we are supposed to
be the check-and-balance on power we are supposed to be holding those and
governments accountable
have no excuse i've also think that the embedding process
has brought the media two win all-time low
when you have reporters embedded in the front lines of troops who'll do you
think they are going to be favorable toward sending of course these young
soldiers are being put in harm's way and if you're in bed it with and you two are
being put in harm's way today are protecting you what are you going to say
about them except alone
favorable towards the whole situation and i think they should be you should be
critical of that but it is very difficult at that point to be critical
of the whole situation we need a media that's independent now we need to go one
step further though giannini goodman from too much you know you can check out
the program in two months ago dot org
also the author of setting up to the madness with uh... along with the victim
uh... any sold we have the
situation uh... with
the report is being threatened with access sided axis india cut off that
those lines
reporters motivations at that point
we had sandals on the show a while back and he said
it used to be different
you know what happened what used to happen is the gradient or clinton white
house complained about the questions i asked them
roone arledge would give me a race every time they complain i'd get a raise
and so that
you know that gives you the incentive to be tough
from the administration and not to take any graph from them
now we have the offices senator so it is the reporters as much as it is that they
understand that
and the people in charge of them saying hey go longer the access don't challenge
that we know what happened and i think that's it i think
it actually goes way back last night at the national conference of media reform
at the preliminary session i was signing books and i came up to me he just left
c_b_s_
and in he's been there for a long time
don't forget that edward r_ murrow
was forced out
c_b_s_ man
and this c_b_s_ employees last night said that laurence tisch
it's not too bad it being
his greatest embarrassments and regret he was one of course the map
because he was saying that and fair anyway tomorrow it come on
they would get the calls from those in power from what's it properly
dam or whatever company it was you know sponsoring them saying we want to stay
right here in india
he was taking on the establishment at that time
think about walter cronkite and how remarkable he was doing the vietnam war
when he came out against it was over anyone's he had come out against the war
when c size dot com
weighed the evidence
but this kind of pressure has been going on for a long time i think particularly
in the corporate media it is very difficult but even in public radio and
television
we see a softening
we are not supposed to be apart at the establishment heavily embedded in the
front lines of troops were not supposed to be indebted in the establishment
areas decision country can take kids to go to war we need immediate challenges
those who make those decisions and jump overboard sells any exhaustive rosebud
that's more or less cushion for the next guest comes in
window vehicle bomb a becomes president uh... do you think this dynamic changes
in some ways in the sense that is that the republicans say be able to control
access it is a democratic president with rosa remains a very important point i
can't say and a new look at nineteen ninety six ninety seven
it was president clinton and vice president gore
that signed up in the telecommunications act that has led to the consolidation of
the media
of the war authorization bill could not have happened if it weren't for
democrats the leaders of the democratic party remember john kerry john edwards
hillary clinton
they all voted for
you had senator byrd
of west virginia
please now hospitalized testimony in the oldest centenarians cast more votes than
any senator history over eighteen thousand
sitting standing on the floor
senate
with a shaking hand holding the constitution saying
where
and he led what he called the honor roll what he says this is out this vote
twenty three senators saying no to war