you seem to see the infrastructure construction this is a region special economic zone promises exceptional of the cheese for developing fuel business in russia will come to some other regions for more information log on to invest in some markets of all you. talk about you with the line from moscow i'm to share a recap of the headlines now about the forceful break up of a rally under arrest started stalking the wall street protests gathering steam in the united states people frustrated over the state of the economy and corporate influence and politics say it's time now for an american spring if greece admits it's failing to deal with its deficit the key demand of its international creditors in time to meet a critical e.u. deadline despite multiple rounds of austerity cuts already implemented by the

government and massive layoffs announced on sunday. and russia's latest launch of a navigation satellite brings the number of its global house units in all bit to twenty four by the system is now operating at full strength covering the entire globe. next around here we scrutinize the state of american broadcasting today our special report coming your way right. when just one of the san antonio ways can try. to. keep the crowd. yalit. to. keep.

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 dial. wherever you may be the radio brought entertainment and sports and news of the world right into your own home most. broadcasting retained face it was hope. in the spirit our government made policies to make sure the media protects the public and simply airwaves are the political football preferred the federal communications commission the struggle the responsibility of protecting the people the the a.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 keep a challenge their sizes and the f.c.c. could take them away. and the f.c.c.

understood that radio and t.v. should be own hopefully so they passed strict rules limiting the number of stations any one person k.l.a. should interfere and here to stay cool which only six hours old enough by n.b.c. . then came the war. and radio became a lifeline. for president i think the information we were getting was vitally the only that's a date which will live. in infamy important or national security important to our democracy our. network moral figure from iraq and we learned this new media could be used against us hegemony i didn't say or. media who took her yankee her or. her. or

her her what they did of course of those fascist regimes was a just broadcast over and over again the information and the perspective of 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 fairness doctrine the fairness doctrine require radio and t.v. stations to provide coverage to fight only important controversy zero issues and provide a reasonable opportunity for the presentation of contrast and in points you were asked 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 to the administrations of truman eisenhower kennedy johnson nixon ford and carter more generally like. robert reich. and then a real needy america came into power with but i will faithfully execute the ronald

reagan was the scene of deregulation of his f.c.c. deregulated t.v. and radio of the one person could own dozens of broadcast ations nationwide and send the free market would provide fairness and broadcasting so they got rid of the fair and stop. 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 peter. the one nine hundred ninety six telecommunications act suddenly allowed big companies like clear channel to own twelve hundred stations nationwide and brown program them with conservative talk radio was not just an unmanned sponsored this was only to say that the bars. were looking at the five largest operators where we found was nine to one

were tender wanted vantage of conservative talk show hosts self declared conservative hosts versus folks who declared 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 trucks this is an extraordinary downs 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 in 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 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 i don't see talkers magazine now is out the ed schultz show has got over three million listers progress and talk we got it starts in two thousand and four and it now seems to be having an effect many formerly red states that hurt ed and noble and air america were highly competitive voted blue in two thousand and eight while those that heard only conservative talk went read. as usual good bait 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 the air in the fall of zero five it was like a two point four planes going to strange to me you did it. and market it you can 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 oracle 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 which talk show hosts in news can say then check their facts turns out there's a lot of false and also it was david brock used to perpetrate author david brock uncovered evidence about a new deal that has been sincere by liberals the right time pattern of crime sexual harassment or political radicalism and most important are likely motivation for destroying the career of clarence thomas then he learned he'd been lied to 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 rocks 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 the complaint is one of liberal bias i think and i've looked at it carefully at the site 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 truly jane a tree and her husband steve wilson were an award winning investigative reporting

teams or sing 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. team ran this promotion for the investigation into cancer nobody else in the country covered this and then they get fired for trying to tell the story when the g.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 their own 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 threaten to report the news distortion to the f.c.c. that's when deputy be key fire them they're very courageous they file a whistleblower suit you know they go to trial

a korea tourney john chambliss mr sosa let us. all of the year and from there on him through a mouth than ever is made to talk to scientists or to distort the story in a way that we will defeat monsanto these folks refuse to do in this weather for steve's wilson played his own case you know what that story cost. two careers. in my office. 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. t.'s station or news management acted intentionally and deliberately to falsify or distort the plainest proposed news report on the g.

eight wilson lost to janie corey 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 the t.v. tease there thirteen representatives say the jury through its verdicts clearly stated that the station did not tell me and wilson to falsify and distort the news through their b.t.h. story but that we are completely vindicated 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 last an incapacity one hundred twenty thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars i think today is a wonderful day for boxer two for other damages two hundred fifteen thousand five hundred and twenty five dollars fox appealed the jury's decision for disney and

their attorneys argued there is no law against the store you have found a stash. you haven't found a rule we have for regulation what we're doing is you supporting you to death for the news distortion process and it went to the second district court of appeals in florida and they bought the fox argument that yes it is a policy of the f.c.c. but it's not technically against any rule of regulation to distort what they're saying as the news really belongs to the corporation of the putting it out and that it's not a cancel 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 broadcast airwaves turkish president. completely funded by the really create and wilson ended up paying fox attorney fees. the world to war in iraq took some strange turn stranger than a detour to the west african country of these your 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 and production just to air one eight minute story to build a nuclear bomb explode they've largely been replaced with coverage like this the cost very little anna nicole smith's last interview that means profits for shareholders chris and divert your attention 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 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 going at the story and saying ok america here's the facts you decide and maybe. that's. just 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 excess 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 interview some real good wine maker that everybody wants to get on their air and you want that person that's a valuable commodity you better put it in 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 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 do paul totally nay did they

say in the run up to the war with so clear for two years that 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 an article suitable 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 sulking that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud note. we do have solid evidence of the presence in iraq. al qaeda members there was a pattern relationship that went back at least a decade before iraq and al qaeda was a lot of obvious the sepsis at a time when it was crucial for our country which was right after nine eleven and 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 three peat

at the administration will. be to have a conflict. in iraq were to time a time in pictures saddam hussein put his biological weapons laboratories in trucks little turned out to be true constantly talk shows instead of providing clarity on the single most rainham 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 city in the pentagon the newsweek poll showed forty one percent of americans saddam hussein was directly terrorist attempts i don't think we ever said no i didn't say that there was a direct connection between september eleventh and saddam hussein 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 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 p.b.s. news hour with jim lehrer there were three hundred ninety three interviews done around war only three were with 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. drones 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 a certain status. is needed. talking points imagine an iraq ruled by the message yet needs to be measured in iraq imagine iraq and the country talking point link iraq to iran i believe iran is now the number one troublemaker in iraq so that's bad enough but a lot of these pentagon pundits are making big money from defense contracts to the t.v. and the radio military analysts have ties to military contractors people who could possibly be making money. they 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 them reporter jonathan landay covered the speech dick cheney. in august two thousand and two 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 landi 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 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 onto a trip pentagon trip since. that three years. the chill was felt by 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 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 circuitry of defensive interest we says the vice president so be it . still he's leaving out what we trusted as we knew it was john with. the biggest scandal of the bush administration is the story of reporters who protected their access to top of. the first and put their responsibility to the public 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 student 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 that 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 worked there the cia even told no that not to publish that information but know that they had to harlow told me as he asked me not to use your name did not say she was a she was uncovered and i still don't believe she was a covert activities former president bush was not amused human intelligence. is very important. that's pretty hard to get it. or somebody working clandestine service faces names to appear in i'm sure they're both your initial a cell deputy defense secretary richard admitted he was the first to leak this guy's name and he a poet. for it. the 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 and they're good individuals they're important members of our white house team 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 stomach well 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 lied because they had talked to karl rove above ellery plame you know she was 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 cold evading a source to get information that's of value to you as a journalist here you are being used by the government 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 if that's valid or not is that she wasn't covert which is just ridiculous was she in fact a covert agent was never even proved there is no doubt that the relationship with the cia was classified 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 in any covert activities he knew whether she was covert or not from day one and see. she's never been proven to be covert to endangering national security by outing a covert cia operatives are not

a career sue is not a career it up where the i.a.e.a. says that she was for the record plame wilson was a covert agent the cia put it in writing.

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