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when charles from. san antonio ways can try. to. keep the crowd. come on now. he. is not come to. get. on. our story begins during the great depression times were hard

and broadcasting was brand new it seemed like a miracle. l.c.l. to talk into the queue behind your radio guy whoever wherever you may be to radio brought entertainment and sports and news of the world right in torah own homes listen just broadcasting retained faith it was hope. in the spirit our government made policies to make sure the media protects the public and simply a way to talk of the book probably the federal communications commission the charged with the responsibility of protecting the people before the f.c.c. decided broadcasters needed to be licensed to licenses for free of charge but there was a catch t.v. and radio owners had to serve the public if they did not people could 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 owned locally so they cast strict rules limiting the number of stations any one person could ellerey in the current leader to stay cuckold the six hour rate by n.b.c. . then came your. and radio became a lifeline. for president but the information we were getting was vital we all knew that it's a date which will live. in infamy important to our national security important to our democracy our earth is that right moral speaking from wrong and we learned this new media could be used against us is an empire they are after p.d.f. ok through her yankee her her. her. her her her her what they did of course are those fascist regimes which you 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 thousand nine hundred eighty nine incorporated something called the fairness doctrine the fairness doctrine required radio and t.v. stations to provide coverage vitally important controversy on issues and to provide a reasonable opportunity for the presentation of contrast in points you 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 going to carry the administrations of truman eisenhower kennedy johnson nixon ford and carter more generally like there is robert reich. and then a real media mary came into power which i will faithfully execute the office 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 broadcasters since nationwide and said the free market would provide fairness in broadcasting so they got rid of their stuff. anyway back then republicans and democrats passed a bill to reinstate the fairness doctrine newt gingrich and trent lott were co-sponsors. but ronald reagan. the one nine hundred ninety six telecommunications act suddenly allowed big companies like clear channel to own twelve hundred stations nationwide hit them run program them with conservative talk radio was obvious and in many instances this was sold to suit the bars. the looking at the five largest operators where we found was nine to one or ten the wanted vantage of conservative talk show hosts self declared

conservative hosts versus folks who declared themselves liberal or progressive. damage 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 down but in places like houston texas for example. we found looking at monday through friday can skirt 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 vast republicans good luck especially if you live in the midwest mainstream talk that breaks the inside the beltway in the street 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. so let's see talkers magazine now is out the ed schultz show has got over three million listers progressive talk it got its start in two thousand and four and it now seems to be having an effect on many formerly red states this 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 bait but here's the scary part since the democrats made gains in the two thousand and six election corporate radio took big getting 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 after a example 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 things got a strange to me you did. market it or can i have a problem it isn't just ohio since two thousand and six dozens of 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 a political 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 false in it also it was david brock used to perpetrate author david brock and covers evidence about a new hill that has been since or by liberals the right time pattern of crime sexual harassment or political radicalism and most important are likely motivation for destroying the earth. then he learned he'd been my tunes and 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 rocks troopergate story that led to the paula jones mosque suit the judge dismissed that case because it had no merit

it were. in other words that was the for of a list 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 and 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 pretty carefully at the side of 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 working at w.t.v. t.v. news in tampa bay florida first then they uncovered

a story about hormones being secretly into your milk supply t.v. team ran this promotion for the investigation cancer nobody else in the country covered this and then they get fired for trying to tell the story when b.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 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 untrue 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 they view t.v. can fire them they're very courageous they file a whistleblower suit you know they go to trial a three attorney john chambliss surfaces the lawyers. this. still of the year and

from there on him throughout the matter is made to the center of the story to distort the story in a way that we will visit monsanto diesel for you to do in this wonderful steve wilson play his own case you know what this story cost. two careers. and i want it. there was only one way or wilson could win under judge roll steinberg instructed the jury for they have to prove w t v t station management for had deliberately tried to distort the news proof of a violation requires that the plaintiffs establish that the via t.v. tease station or news management acted intentionally and deliberately to falsify or distort plainness proposed news report on the g eight wilson lost a genie one 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 that's 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. story but that we are completely vindicated on the finding of history that we do not to stuart is 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 a true false pick a shot of the us for lost i mean capacity one hundred twenty thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars i think today is a wonderful day for thirteen for other damages two hundred fifteen thousand five hundred and twenty five dollars fox appealed the jury's decision which is that he and their attorneys argued there is no law against. you haven't found

a stand. you haven't found a rule even for regulation what we're doing is importing into that's the news distortion process and it went to the second district court of appeals in florida and they bought the fox argument that ya see is a policy of the c.c. but it's not technically against any law or rule of regulation can distort what they're saying as the news really belongs to the corporation the putting it out and that it's not against a lot of light in 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. the general right if. we're going to defy the rule of a creed and wilson ended up paying fox attorney fees. 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 cost a lot of money from the team of people that looks into research and trial 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 costs very little anna nicole smith interview that means profits for shareholders and send to extensions real nice 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 a newsroom so you don't have the reporters that go out there and pick up 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. 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 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 interview some real headline maker that everybody wants to get on their air and 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 where were the hard questions that in the ad business. is small i think the press dropped the ball i think when they should have been the real watchdogs and should have. let the chips fall where they may they did paul they totally made good as 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 know that saddam has risen is 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 person that the first thing to scare everyone we don't want the smoking gun that could come in the form of the mushroom cloud note. we do have solid evidence of the presence in iraq. will create a members there was a pattern the relationship of my back at least a decade when iraq was a lot of obvious to separate at a time when it was crucial for our country which was right after nine eleven they felt that they had big to be super patriots and support the government no matter what they gave up their one weapon which was skepticism on the news shows peter the

administration will. have a conflict between iraq and the time timing dangers saddam hussein put his biological weapons laboratories in trucks little turned out to be true awesomely instead of providing clarity on the scene most of our generation the press only created confusion it is smoking gun is an interesting phrase six years after the attacks in the new york city. in the pentagon the newsweek poll showed forty one percent of americans thought saddam hussein was directly 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 good 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 or according to. the study. two weeks around february fifth two thousand and three right before the invasion before 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 that the world leaders three of almost four hundred when half the population was supposed to be invasion that is no longer in the mainstream media that's an extreme and even the 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 than say them on the air no questions asked if.

that is needed to tell us talking points imagine in iraq ruled by the message yet needs to be in iraq imagine iraq and the country talking point blank iraq to iran i believe the iran is now the number one credit maker in iraq that's bad enough but a lot of these pentagon pundits were making big money from defense contracts thanks to the t.v. on the radio. kerry analysts have ties to military contractors people could possibly be making money although. most would consider that a potential conflict of interest they could 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 faulty intelligence about how there was no link between iraq and al-qaeda about failed policies that series of stories and one station of people in the pentagon tried to shut me out of travel with the secretary of defense i was not allowed to have not been allowed in or invited onto trips 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 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 life and limb and health and family and everything else then we're doing our job and if that displeases the circuitry of defense or if it just pleases the vice president so be it. still he's a bit out with we trusted as we knew we called his job with yet just opened 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 laughs. the story really begins with him bassett or 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 union address the british government has learned 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. 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 not to publish that information but know that did what mr harlow told me he asked me not to use or not. did not say she was a she was a pervert employee and i still don't believe she was in any covert activities former president bush was not amused human intelligence spies. is very important. pretty hard to get it. if somebody working clandestine service uses names to appear i'm sure they're both places deputy defense secretary richard admitted he was the first to leak this guy's name and he apologized for it. but white house staffers karl rove in lewis libby also spraying the covert agents name to reporters at the same time for sure in the president's own press secretary they

had nothing to do with it they were good individuals there are 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 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 were soon 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 tolerant official to carry out their politike. 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 upsets valerie and i says she wasn't covert which is just ridiculous was she in fact a covert agent was never even proved there is no doubt that her relationship with the cia was classified if you give the identity of a classified person it doesn't mean diddly squat you to be a covert agent and i still don't believe 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 offered to use a lot of course she was not a cover it up for the i.r.s. says that she was for the record valerie plame wilson was

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