Network Anchor Song and Dance

Commentary on last week's joint appearance on the Today Show by network news anchors Katie Couric, Brian Williams and Charlie Gibson, and their pathetic attempts to shuck and jive their way around charges that they're all basically media puppets for the Bush administration.

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Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• media
• complicity
• war
• iraq
• katrina
• new
• orleans
• news
• anchors
• nbc
• abc
• cbs

[niceone213]

blah blah blah.

[jperryam]

Care to elaborate on that stellar response?

[bluen0te]

since when did anyone really mistake these actors for real jounalists? "real jounalism" is not found on the networks any more. i'm baffled at the outrage. television news, at least on the national level is mere show business. it is how presidents are elected and the sheep at large are kept in the dark. wake the f up...

[jperryam]

Interesting. You're saying everyone realizes they're only acting, but then you acknowledge that the show business of it all is "how presidents are elected and the sheep at large are kept in the dark (precisely what I said in the video)." How exactly could these things happen without millions of sheeple mistaking these actors for real journalists every day?

You're baffled by the outrage? I'm baffled by the cognitive dissonance.

[getorphan]

You are exactly correct. There may be one additional factor to explain why the msm does such a dismal job of reporting reality. Remember all those packages of weapon grade anthrax that got mailed to various media establishments including the offices of the political opposition. I believe there is a hidden physical threat that the administration is also using that may be even more powerful than denying access.

[minivanjack]

Overtrust of media is an epidemic. Thanks for keeping us sharp.

[jackson32]

Cronkite was very well respected by the establishment, which should tell you all you need to know about him. He supports the New World Order. What's more he never questioned power, show me even one instance where he really challenges the powers that be.

Exactly, thats what I thought. And that's over a what, 30 year career with a ridiculous amount of lying, corruption, cover-ups, unjust wars, etc.

[DonkeyofHeaven]

Gibson is a pretender at journalism. He will ask a question and the dutifully report the answer as if that is all there is to it. He never reports whether the anwswer was true ro false. Willaims and couric of course are just as useless to the public. These people think uncritically passing alont the White Hourse or Pentagon press releases is "reporting." They have completely abdicated their journalistic responsibility to say what is true or false fact and what is unprovable opinon.

[jperryam]

Thanks Scott. I appreciate the sentiment, but MSNBC would NEVER hire me, and I wouldn't be interested anyway. They're part of the media that is a major part (perhaps THE major part) of the problem in America today. As much leeway as they give Olbermann, his is still somewhat "tucked away" in a cable news corner. I don't think you would ever see him doing what he does on the network news. Perpetual war means too much for GE's (the major "defense" contractor that also owns MSNBC) bottom line...

[jperryam]

Phil is another one of the good ones. Did not see him on Moyers but caught him on TheRealNews talking about Body of War. MSNBC really screwed him.

[jperryam]

Thanks Scott -

Right on with the comments on Cronkite. I'd love to know what he thinks of today's corporate media tools.

[ShiekYerbooty]

Wow, I can't beleive Brian Williams admitted that MSM takes it orders from the Pentagon

I was out last week, and missed this, nice work

[katygirl48]

I agree entirely about Brian Williams and Charlie Gibson. As for Katie, that's the first statement of hers in a long time I have admired. A book I would suggest for both gentlemen is "Once Upon A Distant War" by William Prochnau. It is the story of how David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan and others got the real story out about Vietnam, regardless of the administration's efforts to spin it and demonize them. A good read!