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*This

is a two-page summary of revealing accounts by 20 award-winning journalists

from the book / Into the Buzzsaw

<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1591022304/ref=ord_cart_shr/104-0531273-9795914?%5Fencoding=UTF8 & m=ATVPDKIKX0DER & v=glance

>,

/compiled

Kristina Borjesson.

All of

these courageous writers were prevented by corporate media ownership from

reporting major news stories. Some were even fired or laid off. These

journalists have won numerous awards, including several Emmys and a Pulitzer.

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* Jane Akre

<http://www.foxbghsuit.com/>—Fox News*.

After our struggle to air an honest report [on hormones in milk], Fox

fired the general manager [of our station]. The new GM said that if we didn't

agree to changes that the lawyers were insisting upon, we'd be fired for insubordination

in 48 hours. We pleaded with [him] to look at the facts we'd uncovered. His

reply: "We paid $3 billion dollars for these TV stations. We'll tell /you/ what

the news is. The news is what /we /say it is!" [After we refused] Fox's general

manager presented us an agreement that would give us a full year of salary, and

benefits worth close to $200,000 in "consulting jobs," but with strings

attached: no mention of how Fox covered up the story and no opportunity to ever

expose the facts. [After declining] we were fired. (pp. 213-219, click for more

<http://www.WantToKnow.info/massmedia#akre>)

 

* Dan Rather

<

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=dp_searchBox_1/104-0531273-9795914?url=index%3Dbooks%26dispatch%3Dsearch%26results-process%3Dbin & field-keywords=dan+rather & x=5 & y=6>—CBS,

Mulitple Emmy

Awards*. What's going on is a belief

that you can manipulate communicable trust between the leadership and the led.

The way you do that is you don't let the press in anywhere. Access to war is extremely

limited. The fiercer the combat, the more the access is limited, [including]

access to information. This is a direct contradiction of the stated policy of

maximum access to information consistent with national security. 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 U.S.] is that you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism

put around your neck. That fear keeps journalists from asking the tough questions.

I am humbled to say, I do not except myself from this criticism. (pp. 37-42,

click for more

<http://www.WantToKnow.info/massmedia#rather>)

 

* Kristina Borjesson

<

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1591022304/ref=ord_cart_shr/104-0531273-9795914?%5Fencoding=UTF8 & m=ATVPDKIKX0DER & v=glance>—CBS,

Emmy award winner*.

Pierre Salinger announced to the world on Nov. 8, 1996, that he'd received

documents proving that a US Navy missile had accidentally downed [TWA flight

800]. That same day, FBI's Jim Kallstrom called a press conference. 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 out

of the room. Kallstrom and entourage acted as if nothing had happened.

[Kallstrom was later hired by CBS.]

(pp. 290-291, click

for more

<http://www.WantToKnow.info/massmedia#borjesson>)

 

* Monika

Jensen-Stevenson

<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0771083289/ref=lpr_g_2/104-0531273-9795914?v=glance & s=books

>—Emmy-winning

producer for /60 minutes/*. Robert R.

Garwood—14 years a prisoner of the Vietnamese—was found guilty in the longest

court-martial in US history. At the end of the court-martial, there seemed no

question that

Garwood was a

monstrous traitor. Several years later in 1985, Garwood was speaking publicly

about something that had never made the news during his court-martial. He knew

of other American prisoners in Vietnam long after the war was over. He was

supported by Vietnam veterans whose war records were impeccable….My sources

included outstanding experts like former head of the Defense Intelligence

Agency General Tighe and returned POWs like Captain McDaniel, who held the

Navy's top award for bravery. With such advocates, it was hard not to consider

the possibility that prisoners (some 3,500) had in fact been kept by the Vietnamese

as hostages to make sure the US would pay the more than $3 billion in war

reparations. [After the war] American POWs had become worthless pawns. The US

had not paid the promised monies and had no intention of paying in the future. (pp. 255-263, click for more

<http://www.WantToKnow.info/massmedia#jensenstevenson>)

 

* Greg Palast

<http://www.gregpalast.com/>—BBC*.

In the months leading up to the November [2000] balloting, Gov. Jeb Bush

ordered elections supervisors to purge 58,000 voters on the grounds they were

felons not entitled to vote. As it turns out, only a handful of these voters

were felons. This extraordinary news ran on page one of the country's leading paper.

Unfortunately, it was in the wrong country: Britain. In the USA, it was not

covered. The office of the governor [also] illegally ordered the removal of

felons from the voter rolls—real felons—but with the right to vote under

Florida law. As a result, 50,000 of these voters could not vote. The fact that

90% of these voters were Democrats should have made it news as this alone more

than accounted for Bush's victory.

(pp. 195-197, click

for more <http://www.WantToKnow.info/massmedia#palast>)

 

* Michael Levine

<http://www.expertwitnessradio.org/>—25-year veteran of

DEA, writer for /New

York Times/, /Los Angeles Times/, and /USA Today/*.

The Chang Mai

"factory" that the CIA prevented me from destroying was the source of massive

amounts of heroin being smuggled into the US in the bodies and body bags of GIs

killed in Vietnam. Case after case was killed by CIA and State Department

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. Bolivia [was] the source of virtually 100% of the cocaine entering

the US.

Immediately after the

coup, cocaine production increased massively. This was the beginning of the

crack "plague."…The CIA along with State and Justice Departments had to protect

their drug-dealing assets by destroying a DEA investigation. How do I know? I

was the inside source….I sat down at my desk in the American embassy 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….The highlight of

the /60 Minutes/ piece is when the administrator of the DEA, Federal Judge

Robert Bonner, tells Mike

Wallace, "There is no

other way to put it, Mike, [what the CIA did] is drug smuggling. It's illegal." (pp. 165-189, click for more

<http://www.WantToKnow.info/massmedia#levine>)

 

* Gary Webb

<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1888363932/qid%3D1100697120/sr%3D2-1/ref%3Dpd%5Fka%5Fb%5F2%5F1/104-0531273-9795914

>—/San

Jose Mercury News/, Pulitzer Prize winner*.

In 1996, I wrote a series of stories that began this way: For the better

part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and

Bloods gangs of LA and funneled millions in drug profits to a guerilla army run

by the CIA.

The cocaine that

flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in urban America ….The story was

developing a momentum all of its own, despite a virtual news blackout from the

major media. Ultimately, it was public pressure that forced the national

newspapers into the fray. The /Washington Post/, the /New York Times/, and the

/Los Angeles Times/ published stories, but spent little time exploring the

CIA's activities.

Instead, my reporting

and I became the focus of their scrutiny. It was remarkable [/Mercury News/

editor] Ceppos wrote, that the four /Washington Post/ reporters assigned to

debunk the series "could not find a single significant factual error." A few

months later, the /Mercury News/ [due to intense CIA pressure] backed away from

the story, publishing a long column by Ceppos apologizing for "shortcomings" in

the series. The /New York Times/ hailed Ceppos for "setting a brave new standard,"

and splashed his apology on their front page, the first time the series had

ever been mentioned there. I quit the /Mercury News/ not long after that….Do we

have a free press today? Sure. It's free to report all the sex scandals, all

the stock market news, [and] every new health fad that comes down the pike. But

when it comes to the real down and dirty stuff—such stories are not even open

for discussion. (pp.

143-156, click for

more <http://www.WantToKnow.info/massmedia#webb>)

 

*John Kelly

<

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743236416/qid=1100697261/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0531273-9795914?v=glance & s=books>—Author,

ABC producer*. ABC hired me to help

produce a story about an investment firm that was heavily involved with the

CIA. Part of the ABC report charged that the CIA had plotted to assassinate an

American, Ron Rewald, the president of [the investment firm]. Scott Barnes said

on camera that the CIA had asked him to kill Rewald. After the show aired, CIA officials

met with ABC executive David Burke, [who] was sufficiently

impressed "by the

vigor with which they made their case" to order an on-air "clarification." But

that was not enough. [CIA Director] Casey called ABC Chairman Goldenson. [Thus]

despite all the documented evidence presented in the program, despite ABC

standing by the program in a second broadcast, Peter Jennings reported that ABC

could no longer substantiate the charges. That same day, the CIA filed a formal

complaint with the FCC charging that ABC had "deliberately distorted" the news.

In the complaint, Casey asked that ABC be stripped of its TV and radio

licenses….During this time, Capital Cities Communications was maneuvering to

buy ABC. [CIA Director] Casey was one of the founders of Cap Cities. Cap Cities

bought ABC. Within months, the entire investigative unit was dispersed. (pp. 130-133, click for more

<http://www.WantToKnow.info/massmedia#kelly>)

 

* Robert McChesney

<

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index%3Dbooks%26field-keywords%3DRobert%252520McChesney%26store-name%3Dbooks/104-0531273-9795914>—500

radio & TV appearances*. [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], and much, much more. Expensive investigative

journalism—especially that which goes after national

security or powerful

corporate interests—is discouraged. Largely irrelevant human interest/tragedy

stories get extensive coverage….A few weeks after the war began in Afghanistan,

CNN president Isaacson authorized CNN to provide two different versions of the

war: a more critical one for the global audience and a sugarcoated one for Americans….It

is nearly impossible to conceive of a better world without some changes in the

media status quo. We have no time to waste. (pp. 444-453, click for more

<http://www.WantToKnow.info/massmedia#mcchesney>)

 

 

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