Can We Trust The Media To Report The Truth? No.
Can We Trust The Media? — cross-posted at The Care2 Election Blog
How much can we trust the media to report the truth? In this article, Glenn Greenwald from Salon.com, puts the pieces of this puzzle together…And the conclusions are more than troubling. Here are some excerpts from the article, let me know what you think in comments.
CNN/ABC Reporter: Corporate Executives Forced Pro-War and Pro-Bush Narrative.
Jessica Yellin — currently a CNN correspondent who covered the White House for ABC News and MSNBC in 2002 and 2003 — was on with Anderson Cooper last night discussing Scott McClellan’s book, and made one of the most significant admissions heard on television in quite some time…
Yellin’s admission is but the latest in a growing mountain of evidence demonstrating that corporate executives forced their news reporters to propagandize in favor of the Bush administration and the war, and censored stories that were critical of the Government. Katie Couric yesterday said that threats from the White House and accusations of being unpatriotic coerced the media into suppressing its questioning of the war. But last September, Couric revealed even more specifically the type of pressure that was put on her by NBC executives to refrain from criticizing the administration, after she conducted a “tough interview” with Condoleezza Rice:
At the same time, MSNBC fired the only real war opponent it had, Phil Donahue, despite very healthy ratings (the highest of any show on MSNBC, including “Hardball”). When interviewed for Bill Moyers’ truly superb 2007 documentary on press behavior in the run-up to the war, Donahue reported much the same thing as Yellin, Couric, and Banfield revealed:
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