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american airways as also russian radio conscience to new a space station's washington and new york so this will cost money most in more than eight years. next we'll take a look at what lies behind him in the u.s. . i had one just come. from san antonio ways and try. to. keep the product. knowledge easier. to. keep. our story begins during the great depression times were hard and broadcasting was

brand new it seemed like a miracle. i'll see i'll put it into the queue behind your radio. wherever you may be to radio brought entertainment and sports and news of the world right into your own home most of. broadcasting retained faith it was hope. in the spirit our government made policies to make sure the media protects the public and simply airwaves arc of the book across the big book the broken immature from the comics the struggle the responsibility of protecting the people before the f.c.c. decided broadcasters needed to be licensed the 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 licenses and the f.c.c. could take them away. and the f.c.c. understood that radio and t.v.

should be owned so they passed strict rules limiting the number of stations any one person could ellerey to defend it or to stay cuckold least six hours. by n.b.c. . then came your. and radio became a lifeline. greater than. the information we were getting was vital and only that it's a date which will live. in infamy important to our national security important to our democracy our mother earth is that right moral speaking from iraq and we learned this new media could be used against us i feel they are afghans media think through her yet her or their her. her her her her what they did of course are those fascist regimes was it 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 in one nine hundred forty nine incorporated something called the furthest up the bareness talking require radio and t.v. stations to provide coverage to fight only important controversy issues and to provide a reasonable opportunity for the presentation of contrast in points 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 that served 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 worked faithfully execute the ronald reagan was the keen deregulation of his f.c.c. deregulated t.v.

and radio so one person could own dozens of broadcast asians nationwide and said the free market would provide fairness and broadcasting so they got rid of the fair and stop. any way back then republicans and democrats passed a bill to reinstate the fairness doctrine and newt gingrich and trent lott are co-sponsors. but ronald reagan peter. 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 august and in many instances this was only to say that the bars. they're looking at the five largest operators where we found was a nine to one or ten to wanted fan which of conservative talk show hosts self

declared conservative hosts versus folks who declare themselves liberal or progressive. advantage of roughly twenty five hundred hours of conservative talk as opposed to two hundred fifty hours of liberal or progressive talk this is an extraordinary and counts but in places like houston texas for example. we found looking at monday through friday consumer show 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 that 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 the mainstream thought that breaks the inside the beltway mystique but you might hear it schultz ed as his nationally syndicated show out of fargo north dakota and

his ratings are good he's matching bill o'reilly's numbers. don't see talkers magazine now is out the ed schultz show has got over three million listers progress and talk we got it 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 good base but here's the scary heart since the democrats made gains in the two thousand and six election corporate radio took to get a 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 there are things that 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 same kind of strange to me you did it. market 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. 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 the research website which tracks conservative misinformation in the news it's a simple concept record with talk show hosts and news can say then check their facts turns out there's a lot of false would also it was david brock used to perpetrate author david brock uncovered evidence about the new deal but has been since or by liberals the right time pattern of crime sexual harassment or political radicalism most important or likely motivation for destroying the career of. 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 same 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. 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 so 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 troy jane a tree and her husband steve wilson were an award winning investigative reporting teams or can get w.t.v. t.v. news in tampa bay florida first then we uncovered

a story about four months been secretly into normal milk supply t.v. team granted this promotion for the investigation to cancer nobody else in the country covered this and then they get fired for trying to tell the story when d.t.h. manufacturer 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 there or 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 to make so a korean wilson threatened to report the news distortion to the f.c.c. that's when the t.v. tea fire them were very courageous they file a whistleblower suit you know they go to trial a korea tourney john chambliss musser says the letters. this. all of the year and

from there on him through a mouth an effort is made to sort of talk to scientists or to distort the story in a way that we looked at monsanto these folks refused to do in this wonderful steve wilson play his own case you know that story cost. two careers. and i want. there was only one way or wilson could win under judge roll steinberg instructed the jury they'd have to prove w.t.v. t.v. station management had deliberately tried to distort the news proof of a violation requires that the planners establish that the via t.v. tease station or news management acted intentionally and deliberately to falsify or distort plaintiff's proposed news report on deviates 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 news report yes so a creep proved news distortion and you wouldn't know it from the spin on that t.v. tease their thirteen representatives say the jury through its verdicts clearly stated that a station did not mean wilson to falsify and distort the news through their b.t.h. story but we are included indicated in 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 last 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 fox a killed the jury's decision which isn't he and their attorneys argued there is no law against distortion you have found a stash. we haven't found

a rule we haven't found regulations what we're doing forty two that's the news distortion false 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 distort what they're saying as the news really belongs to the corporation the putting it out and that it's not against the water why do 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. president the general right of. the socialist and completely funded by the really a cretin wilson ended up paying fox attorney fees but the road to the war in iraq took some strange turn stranger than a detour to the west african country of these year reports which do hold government accountable like this can constitute a lot of money from the team of people that looks into research and travel in

production just to air one eight minute story to build a nuclear bomb explode they've largely been replaced with coverage like this the costs very little work anna nicole smith slashed interview that mean for her profits for shareholders of course and divert your attention really because 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 to 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 going at the story and saying ok america here's the facts you decide and maybe it's . just the. media consolidation means fewer reporters and those who remain too often feel pressured to play nice with

government it's a nasty little game called excess that is one of the biggest media manipulations is you are a 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 that everybody wants to get on their air and you want that person that's a valuable commodity you. again the top newsmakers in the bush administration were great and they were all over the airwaves as they made their case for war in iraq and where were the hard questions is. abysmal i think they did the press dropped the ball i think when they should have been the real right and should have . let the chips fall where they may they departed totally nay did they say in the run up to the war with so clear for two years and 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 a bomb suitable for nuclear weapons production there were no weapons of mass destruction with the first sale the first thing to scare everyone we don't want the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud no ties to al qaeda and we do have solid evidence of the presence in iraq. will create a members there was a pattern the relationship that went back at least a decade for iraq and al qaeda was a lot of obvious sepsis at a time when it was crucial for our country which was right after nine eleven they felt that they had to be super patriots and support the government no matter what they gave up their one weapon which was skepticism out of the news shows the key to the administration will. be to have

a conflict with. iraq the order to time and time again saddam hussein quote is biological weapons laboratories in trucks little turned out to be true constantly talk shows instead of providing clarity on the single most of mine an issue of our generation the press only created confusion in the smoking gun is an interesting phrase six years after the attacks on new york's. early in the pentagon the newsweek poll showed forty one percent of americans saddam hussein was directly involved in the terrorist attacks and i don't think we ever should listen i know i didn't say that there was a direct connection between september eleventh and saddam hussein and nobody's ever suggested that the attacks of september the eleventh were ordered by iraq 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 the group fairness and accuracy or according to a. study of the 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 until my right there were three hundred ninety three interviews done around war only three were that they were members three of almost four hundred when half the population was opposed to the invasion that is no longer and mainstream media that's an extreme even the drone was 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. this.

is a. talking point imagine an iraq ruled by the knesset yet nice to meet in iraq imagine iraq and a country talking point link iraq to iran i believe iran is now that everyone thinks they can read 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. terry 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 potential 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 dick cheney in august two thousand and two to the veterans of foreign wars many of us are convinced that saddam hussein will acquire nuclear weapons fairly soon 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 randy and more and struggle began writing about fourteen teligent about how there was no link between iraq and al-qaeda about failed policies that series of stories one the 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 that three years. the chill was felt by white house correspondent william douglas two 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 pres office did like that we wrote. there was no on the plane it's my belief that a lot of journalists did not ask hard questions of the city ministrations 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 secretary of defense or just polices the vice president so be it. still he's a bit out with we trusted him as we knew we followed his judgment with. the south 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 there is 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 works there the cia even told no that's not them published that information but know that they had. told me he asked me not to use your name did not say she was a she was a covert. activities former president bush was not a. human intelligence. is very important. it's pretty hard to get it. or somebody's working clandestine service. his name is going to appear and i'm sure that poster and its place deputy defense secretary richard admitted he was the first to leak this guy's name and he apologized for it. he changed his story but white house staffers karl rove in lewis libby also sprayed the covert agents name to reporters at the same time assuring the president's own press secretary

they had nothing to do with it they are good individuals there are important 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 vall well there were at least three probably four people if not in that room that watched it live and various news organizations the knew that that was a flat out lie because they had talked to karl rove about ellery played and who she was because we were so eager for access to the white house they allowed themselves to be used for political gain using the reporters 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 parliament 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 and i think that while i always you know if that's the. in the us this wasn't covert which is just ridiculous was she in fact a covert agent was never even true that there's no doubt that her relationship with the cia was possible if you give the identity of a classified person it doesn't mean diddly squat to be a covert agent and i still don't believe she was engaged in any covert activities of kenya 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 offered her as a lot of course she was not a cover it up were they i says that she was for the record valerie plame wilson was

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