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when just from. the san antonio ways in trouble. the crowds. keep the crowd. like. a mask. yalit easier. than. our story begins to ring the great depression times were hard and broadcasting was brand new it seemed like a miracle. i'll see our friends get it into the queue behind your radio guy i ever wherever you may be to radio brought entertainment and sports and news of the world right into your own home most of it was in just broadcasting retained faith it was hope. in the spirit our government made policies to make sure the media protects the public and simply

airwaves are considered public property the federal communications commission the drug with the responsibility of protecting the people from the f.c.c. decided broadcasters needed to be licensed to licenses were free of charge but there was a catch t.v. and radio owners had to serve the public if they did not people can challenge their sizes and the f.c.c. could take them away. and the f.c.c. understood that radio and t.v. you should be own local lake so they passed strict rules limiting the number of stations any one person can ellerey interfere in the other two states which only six hour rate by n.b.c. . then came the war. and radio became a lifeline. for president of. the information we were getting was by the. only that

it's a date which will live. in infamy important or national security important to our democracy our motto this is edward morrow speaking from iraq and we learned this new media could be used against us cannot any. afghan media who took her yankee for her or. her. or her for. what they did of course of those fascist regimes was just broadcast over and over again the information and the perspective the point of view and the propaganda that they wanted people to digest absorb and so the federal communications commission back and nine hundred forty nine incorporated something called the furthest up to the fairness doctrine the pirate radio and t.v. stations to provide coverage to fight only important controversial issues and to provide a reasonable opportunity for the presentation of contrast to the point you ask to

bring them on you have to give people the opportunity to express an alternative point of view now it was a code to serve us well good evening through the administrations of truman eisenhower kennedy johnson nixon ford and carter more generally like. robert reich. and then a real media man came into power with what i was faithfully execute the ronald reagan was the king of deregulation of his f.c.c. deregulated t.v. and radio active so one person could own dozens of broadcast asians nationwide and said the free market would provide fairness in broadcasting so they got rid of the fair to start. anyway back then republicans and democrats passed a bill to reinstate the fairness doctrine and newt gingrich and trent lott were co-sponsors but ronald reagan vetoed it. the one nine hundred ninety six telecommunications act suddenly allowed big companies like clear channel

to own twelve hundred stations nationwide hit them brown program them with conservative talk radio was obvious and in many instances this was only to say that the bars. were looking at the five largest operators where we found was nine to one or ten to wanted vantage of conservative talk show hosts self declared conservative hosts versus folks who declare themselves liberal or progressive. vantage of roughly twenty five hundred hours of conservative talk as opposed to two hundred fifty hours of liberal or progressive truck this is an extraordinary grounds but in places like houston texas for example. we found looking at monday through friday concert commercial radio stations one hundred percent conservative talk no progressive no liberals represented the two thousand

and seven study by free press and the center for american progress shows ninety two percent of conservative stations don't air even a single minute of the other side you want to hear a radio talk or bash republicans good luck especially if you live in the midwest mainstream thought that breaks the inside the beltway mystique but you might hear it schultz ed does his nationally syndicated show out of fargo north dakota and his ratings are good he's matching bill o'reilly's numbers. let's see talkers magazine now is out the ed schultz show has got over three million listers progressive talk got its start in two thousand and four and it now seems to be having an effect many formerly red states that heard ed and noble and air america were highly competitive who were voted blue in two thousand and eight while those that heard only conservative talk went read. as usual you could be me but here's the scary part

since the democrats made gains in the two thousand and six election corporate radio took to get into every other progressive talker in the key swing state of ohio off the air first and. then columbus and replaced them with shows they get half their exit while they're out there greasing the skids right now in the winter of those seven with a zero point six number. when i was on there in the fall of zero five it was like a two point four brain scan a strange to me you did it. mark it if you're going to have a problem it isn't just ohio since two thousand and six doesn't so well performing liberal programs have been taken off the air across the country fresno new haven san diego austin and many more i think it's wonderful and i don't think there's any doubt you can look at the numbers this business is owned by conservatives

it's managed by conservatives and it is programmed by conservatives the distorting effect of all that was causing a problem in our democracy was causing people to act based on false information to make decisions about public policy to make decisions in the voting booth based on simply information that was wrong and that there had to be a corrective to that and so in may of two thousand and four i launched a media matters media matters is a research website which tracks conservative misinformation in the news it's a simple concept record with talk show hosts and news people say then check their facts turns out there's a lot of course would also it was david brock used to perpetrate author david brock uncovered evidence about a new deal but has been since. the right time pattern of crime sexual harassment or political radicalism most important are likely motivation for destroying the career

. then he learned he'd been lied to subscribe i came to be aware that the people around clarence thomas who had helped me write that account. didn't believe the account themselves seen with crocs troopergate story that led to the paula jones lawsuit the judge dismissed that case because it had no merit. in other words it was a frivolous lawsuit and that whole thing led to president clinton's impeachment. i just couldn't do what i was doing anymore once i realized what it was he'd been working for a newspaper magnate richard mellon scaife who paid the american spectator magazine two million dollars to dig up dirt on the clintons the information didn't need to be true just damaging the conservative movement also had a hidden media agenda well they claim that their complaint is one of liberal

bias i think and i look pretty carefully at the sun i've looked at many of the studies that claim this at the end of the day the real goal is to disable journalism from being able to do its job independently and detroit jane a creep and her husband steve wilson were an award winning investigative reporting teams working at w.t.v. t.v. news in tampa bay florida first then we uncovered a story about hormones being secretly into normal milk supply t.v. graham this promotion for the investigation just to cancer nobody else in the country covered this and then they get fired for trying to tell the story when d.d.'s manufacture monsanto threatened to sue fox news w t v t pulled the report then tried to get the investigators to change their story. but the reporters wouldn't back down they can ask you to put things on the air broadcast to the

public over the public airwaves that are untrue that are unsubstantiated or flat out on true and that's also what they were asking us to do they crossed that line and that's an important distinction tonight so a korean wilson threatened to report the news distortion to the f.c.c. that's when the new t.v. to fire them were very courageous they file a whistleblower suit you know they go to trial a tree attorney john chambliss surfaces the letters. this. all of the year and from there on him throughout the matter is need to talk to scientists or distort the story in a way that we will visit monsanto diesel for a few to do in this weather for steve's wilson played his own case you know what that story cost. two careers. and i want it. there was only one way or wilson could win under judge roll steinberg instructed the jury where they'd have to prove w t v t station management had deliberately

tried to distort the news proof of a violation requires that the plaintiff the stabbers that there be a t.v. tease station or news management acted intentionally and deliberately to falsify or distort plaintiff's proposed news report on d.g. eight wilson lost the genie cre won her case because she threatened to disclose to the federal communications commission on your oath the broadcast of a false distorted or slanted moved report yes so a creep proved news distortion and you wouldn't know it from the spin on the t.v. tease there thirteen representatives say the jury through its verdicts clearly stated that the station did not tell a korean wilson to falsify and distort the news through their b. g.h. story but we are indicated on the finding of this theory that we do not distort news for lost wages eighty eight thousand seven hundred and twenty five dollars let

us not have to do with the store show the news it is not true false vacation of the us for lost an incapacity one hundred twenty thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars i think today is a wonderful day for searching for other damages two hundred fifteen thousand five hundred and twenty five dollars thoughts and killed the jury's decision which is indeed their attorneys argued that there is no law against distortion you have found a stash. you haven't found a rule we haven't found regulation what we're doing is importing you to death for the news distortion faults and it went to the second district court of appeals in florida and they bought the fox argument that yes the policy of the f.c.c. but it's not technically against any law or rule of regulation to destroy. what they're saying is the news really belongs to the corporation that that's putting it out and that it's not a cancel water while the public. it's an f.c.c. rule but it's not against the law where does that leave us as people who are served

by the broadcast airwaves thirty five president. completely said that if i can really create and wilson ended up paying fox attorney fees. the road to war in iraq took some strange turn stranger than to do torture the west african country of the sheer force which do hold government accountable like this can constitute a lot of money from the team of people who put months into research and travel and production just to air one eight minute story to build a nuclear bomb explain they've largely been replaced with coverage like this they cost very little anna nicole smith's last interview that means her profits for shareholders and the brits are extension real names you know whatever happened to investigative reporting and i think part of what happened is corporatization of the media it's the bottom line so the first thing you do is you fire a quarter of the newsroom or half the newsroom so you don't even have the reporters

that go out there and to get the story it's you know how can you get it quick and i can tell you it's a lot cheaper to have two people arguing on t.v. from you know you know polarized point of views than actual reporters out there digging up the story and saying ok america here's the facts you decide and maybe. it's the. media consolidation means you were reporters and those who remain too often feel pressured to play nice with government it's a nasty little game called access that is one of the biggest media manipulations is you want our guy you want our woman well you better play the game you better play by our rules if you want that we call that in our field gets interviewed some real headline maker everybody wants to get on there you want that person that's a valuable commodity you. reported again the top newsmakers in the bush administration were great cats and they were all over the airwaves as they made

their case for war in iraq and where were the hard questions. i think the press dropped the ball i think when they should have been there. and should have. let the chips fall where they may they defaulted totally did they say in the run up to the war it was so clear for two years we were going to war and nobody asked why but we know now. that saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons high quality aluminum tubes which is what you have to have in order to build for nuclear weapons production there were no weapons of mass destruction with the person that the first thing to scare everyone we don't want the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud note. and we do have solid evidence of the presence in iraq.

will create a member there was a pattern the relationship the went back at least a decade iraq and al qaeda was a lot of obvious deception at a time when it was crucial for our country which was right after nine eleven they felt that they had be to be super patriots and support the government no matter what they gave up their one weapon which with skepticism out of the news shows the key to the administration will. be to have a conflict. of an iraqi order to time and time again years saddam hussein quote is biologically weapons laboratories in trucks little turned out to be true constantly instead of providing clarity on the single most fine issue of our generation the press only created confusion it is smoking gun is an interesting phrase six years after the attacks on new york's. early in the head of a newsweek poll showed forty one percent of americans saddam hussein was directly

terrorist and i don't think we are or should least i know i didn't say there was a direct connection between september eleventh and saddam hussein nobody's ever suggested that the attacks of september eleventh were ordered by iraq and no wonder the news media has lost the public trust they want to make policy choices based on truth and what i heard is that people didn't really quite feel that the mainstream media in the media as we most of us experience. was truth telling group fairness and accuracy reporting did a. study. two weeks around february fifth two thousand and three right before the invasion the four major nightly newscasts n.b.c. a.b.c. c.b.s. and the p.b.s. news hour with jim lehrer there were three hundred ninety three interviews done around war only three were antiwar leaders three of almost four hundred when half

the population was opposed to the invasion that is no longer in mainstream media that's an extreme and even the drums for war a recent new york times report says the media got right in bed with the pentagon to promote the war former military officers would get talking points directly from the pentagon and say them on the air no questions asked if. there's anything with which yes generally a talking point imagine an iraq ruled by surprise yes it's nice to be american and iraqi allies in iraq and the country talking point blank iraq to iran i think we've done is now never get incredibly clear in iraq that's bad enough but a lot of these pentagon pundits are making big money from defense contracts to the t.v. on the radio vote. kerry analysts have ties to military contractors people who could possibly be making money or most would consider that

a potential conflict of interest maybe not even potentially at the same time reporters who did ask hard questions were punished by the white house luckily their managers stood by the reporter jonathan landay covered speech in august two thousand and two the betterment of foreign wars many of us are. saying our nuclear weapons. that was based on absolutely nothing it was as if it was pulled out of thin air there was absolutely no intelligence no evidence whatsoever for that assertion so randi and more and struggle began writing about faulty intelligence about how there was no link between iraq and al qaeda but failed policies that series of stories in one station of people in the pentagon trying to shut me out of travel with the secretary of defense i was not allowed to have not been allowed or invited to a trip pentagon trip sits along three years. to

kill my white house correspondent. he had been trying to get on the vice president's plane in early two thousand and four there were some things that. the vice president did like that we wrote. there was no. it's my belief that a lot of journalists did not ask hard questions of this administration's policies particularly in the run up to the war in iraq because they were afraid of losing access and having happened to them what happened to me and has happened to others an example of why media ownership matters to democracy before reporting. sheds light on the reasons why they are being asked to go and risk wife and limb and health and family and everything else. then we're doing our job and if that displeases the circuitry of defensive interest wheezes the vice president so be it

. still is even with we trusted as we knew it called his job with them to stop and it's the biggest scandal of the bush administration is the story of reporters who protected their access to top officials first and put their responsibility to the public for laughs. the story really begins with him vassar joseph wilson wilson was the acting ambassador to iraq before the first gulf war when saddam hussein took more than one hundred americans as hostages joe wilson stared him down saddam hussein backed off and released the americans for that president george herbert walker bush proclaimed wilson a national hero. then that hero heard president george w. bush make this statement in the two thousand and three state of the union address the british government has learned that saddam hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from africa

a year earlier the cia had sent wilson to investigate the uranium claim and he knew it wasn't true their level of corruption. as demonstrated from the top down is staggering to the american people so he wrote about it in the new york times that touched off a firestorm at the white house coolness robert novak tried to discredit wilson by writing a story that wilson's wife valerie plame who worked at the cia sent him on the trip trouble was she worked as a spy for the cia nobody was supposed to know she worked there the cia even told no that not to publish that information but no that did what mr harlow told me he asked me not to use your name did not say she was a she was a covert employee and i still don't believe she was engaged in any covert activities former president bush was not a. used human intelligence spies. is very important. it's pretty hard to

get it. if somebody working clandestine service bases name is going to appear in time for the poster and a place to deputy defense secretary richard admitted he was the first to leak the spies name and he apologized for it. but white house staffers karl rove in the living also sprayed the covert agents name to reporters at the same time assuring to the president's own press secretary they had nothing to do with it their good individuals their point of numbers of our white house and that's why i spoke with them so that i could come back to you and say that they were not involved i went to both those individuals asked them point blank were you involved in the leaking of valerie plame identity and anyway both them told me unequivocally no but scott mcclellan now says in his new book rove and libby lied to him and it turns out a lot of reporters knew it but said nothing and scott mcclellan the white house

spokesperson gets up and he says karl rove is absolutely. well there were at least three probably four people if not in that room that watched it live and various news organization the knew that that was a flat out lie because they had talked to karl rove about ellery played and who she was good with were so eager for access to the white house they allowed themselves to be used for political gain using the reporters to in effect to carry out their political mission and that's different from cultivating a source to get information that's of value to you as a journalist here you are being used by the tolerant official to carry out their political work instead of clarifying the facts in this national security breach the media just had a free for all i think that while i always you know upset about. our innocence wasn't covert which is just ridiculous was she in fact a covert agent was never even proved there's no doubt that her relationship with

the cia was profitable if you give the identity of a classified person it doesn't mean diddly squat you has to be a covert agent and i still don't believe in any covert activities he knew whether she was covert or not from day one and she isn't she's never been proven to be covert to endangering national security by outing a covertly i operatives are not in a career so she was not a covered up word of the i.a.e.a. says that she was for the record valerie plame wilson was a covert agent the cia put it in writing. rachel martin here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture.

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