Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein tells Fresno audience that America's future looks bleak

[Newsjock]

Source: Fresno Bee

Forty years after his investigative reporting helped topple a U.S. president, former Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein came to Fresno for the first time Wednesday and told an large gathering at the Saroyan Theater that America's future looks bleak because of politicians who no longer work for the common good and many journalists who don't report the truth.

... Nowadays, reporters from Fox News, MSNBC, talk radio and other outlets love gossip and sensationalism and no longer print or say information supported by facts, Bernstein said. Instead, "the news is ideological and partisan ammunition to reinforce what they already believe in," he said.

Meantime, politicians have resorted to name-calling and slurs. "The common good is their last consideration," he said.

... Bernstein then asked the crowd if America has turned into "a nation for the wealthy at the expense of the majority of the people."

Read more: http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/04/16/3880776/watergate-reporter-carl-bernstein.html

[Politicalboi]

1. So why does this whore keep going back to

Faux and MSNBC, and talk radio?

[evlbstrd]

2. Are you sure...

...that you're not thinking of Woodward? Now, that's a whore.

[sabrina 1]

3. Good question. Bernstein has been consistent for as long as I have been reading

his comments. Strange comment to make about him. Perhaps the poster was thinking of Woodward?

[evlbstrd]

4. I think you're right.

Bernstein doesn't seek the publicity that Woodward does. He's also a hell of a lot more credible.

[GOPee]

5. I assume this will raise a few eyebrows, or not.

I watch and listen to all of those outlets. News or not I want my information from the sources, including the BS that Fox and Talk radio dishes out. Whether what they say has any merit, the morons that listen to it buy it hook, line, and sinker, and shortly, we will be fighting against the lies.

I get it first hand, and it's hard to keep calm and not bust my TV and radio. I know whats coming, and do my homework and am prepared to fight it in our lunchroom or with my right-wing family. Sometime what they spout has a grain of fact to it, but they spin it completely out of control. It's a hard job, but someone has to do it. lol

[Missn-Hitch]

9. Sounds familiar. I moved 2000 miles away, I couldn't do it anymore.

[2banon]

11. The distinction between Bernstein and Woodward is of significant difference..

It would behoove you to be clear on this, lest you make such a foolish remark on the subject in the future.

[2banon]

6. Carl Bernstein wrote a very important OPED published in the Rolling Stone 1977...

I no longer have that link, but it's republished on his website here:


The CIA and the Media

How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up

BY CARL BERNSTEIN

In 1953, Joseph Alsop, then one of America’s leading syndicated columnists, went to the Philippines to cover an election. He did not go because he was asked to do so by his syndicate. He did not go because he was asked to do so by the newspapers that printed his column. He went at the request of the CIA.

Alsop is one of more than 400 American journalists who in the past twenty‑five years have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency, according to documents on file at CIA headquarters. Some of these journalists’ relationships with the Agency were tacit; some were explicit. There was cooperation, accommodation and overlap. Journalists provided a full range of clandestine services—from simple intelligence gathering to serving as go‑betweens with spies in Communist countries. Reporters shared their notebooks with the CIA. Editors shared their staffs. Some of the journalists were Pulitzer Prize winners, distinguished reporters who considered themselves ambassadors without‑portfolio for their country. Most were less exalted: foreign correspondents who found that their association with the Agency helped their work; stringers and freelancers who were as interested in the derring‑do of the spy business as in filing articles; and, the smallest category, full‑time CIA employees masquerading as journalists abroad. In many instances, CIA documents show, journalists were engaged to perform tasks for the CIA with the consent of the managements of America’s leading news organizations.

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On edit: This piece got very little attention needless to say. Keep in mind, this was written and published in 1977.

[KoKo]

10. Recommend the read....thanks for posting..

[blkmusclmachine]

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[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. "Bernstein then asked the crowd if America has turned into "a nation for the wealthy,..."