the media is no longer just negligent . . . it's downright criminal! . . .

[OneBlueSky]

after watching the Conyers hearings all afternoon, I did something I haven't done in years -- I watched the network news . . . Conyers had thanked the media for attending, and I wanted to see what kind of coverage they'd give the hearings . . .

channel-surfing all three networks reminded me vividely why I no longer watch these whores . . . CBS Evening News? . . . not one word . . . NBC Nightly News? . . . ditto . . . ABC World News Tonight? . . . zip . . .

here we have fully a quarter of the U.S. House of Representatives signing a letter to Bush about the DSM and delivering a petition with over a half million signatures to the White House . . . and not one lousy stinkin' word from any of the "Big Three" . . . it's absolutely disgusting . . . they're part of a huge coverup of administration crimes and are consciously preventing the American people from learning the truth about Iraq . . .

this kind of behavior is more than negligent . . . it's downright criminal . . . and I won't be making the mistake of tuning in the network nightly news ever again . . .

[Cha]

1. The media past "criminal" a long

time ago!

They are what we need to march on!!

[cthrumatrix]

13. the CIA infested media companies "sold us out".... we have no idea

of what the truth is anymore

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. trhe media is us now

the hearings will get top billing on AAR today, locally Randi is on the drive home

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. YUP. and if we REVOLT, who will see it???!!!!!

I feel so helpless!

[Cha]

15. That's why DU says ..

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED~ (IT'S ONLINE.)

FIGHT THE BUSH JUNTA AT @ DEMOCRATICUNDERGROUND.COM

[linazelle]

4. It's not about watching them...at this point, you (and I) have to

contact them--regardless of how they react. This is too important to just turn off the TV. That won't do a thing. Write a letter and let them know how you feel!

[stubtoe]

7. And when you do contact them

If they have reported on DSM or the hearings, thank them. And then request they get to the bottom of this and do some analysis on the contents of the documents.

We can't let them stop at reportage, they need to do some digging.

Keep them cards and emails comin', folks!

[stopbush]

5. If Tom Cruise had watched the hearings the MSM

would cover it for sure...

I mean, they'd do a story on him watching the TV, but they wouldn't mention what he was watching.

[acmejack]

6. Media consolidation went a long way toward this!

No competition equals no news. It has went from racing to be first to not wanting to be first with a big story. It is costing these people money to run Fox and CNN and the others. I mean real money, advertising time to reach 200K people can't sell for much. It is kind of funny, I listen to the new sponsors AAR is finding and it is mute testimony to the size of the audience.

[stickdog]

8. The media IS the enemy! Busting up the complicit corporate whore media

is JOB ONE.

Randomly auditing all elections with voter verified paper ballots is JOB TWO.

JOB THREE doesn't really matter until job one and two are completed.

[FearofFutility]

9. I'm beyond disgusted....

I've been out all day and was really looking forward to SOME type of coverage of the hearings and rally. Just a brief mention would do. There has been NOTHING.......Sickening....

[brettdale]

10. its awful

I cant beleive they didnt even mention it, I thought they would whore it up for Bush and try to blame someone else, but NOT TO EVEN MENTION IT GOES BEYOND BELIEF, THE MEDIA IS GETTING WORSE NOT BETTER, BUSH NOW HAS NO ONE HE HAS ANSWER TO, WELCOME TO IRAN GUYS.

[flordehinojos]

11. and to make it worse,

as a poster in another thread has posted, the mediwhores today asked scottie the wonder press secretary, not about the memo, but about whether the white house was going to respond to conyers and his hearing????

can you imagine that!

[Sapphire Blue]

12. It didn't happen

http://tzone.the-croc.com/sounds/twiltzon.mid

[Sapphire Blue]

14. Mainstream media cover-up - from Media Matters

Mainstream media cover-up: In five weeks following its disclosure, Downing Street memo drew little attention

In the five weeks following its disclosure, both newspapers and the broadcast media in the United States largely ignored the Downing Street memo, a secret British intelligence document indicating that British intelligence officials believed the Bush administration manipulated intelligence to support its case for war in Iraq.

A Media Matters for America search of Nexis databases following the memo's disclosure on May 1 in the British Sunday Times revealed that U.S. newspapers published only 10 articles by their own reporters focused on the substance of the memo prior to a June 7 press conference at which a reporter asked President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair about it. In addition, a Knight Ridder story dated May 6 was reprinted or excerpted in several newspapers. Of these reports, only a handful included new information or original reporting. On television, the memo was the subject of only two reports on prime-time cable news programs prior to the press conference; among the three major networks' evening news shows, only NBC's Nightly News had devoted a report solely to the memo as of June 14, and even that occurred after the press conference.

Newspapers slow to respond to Downing Street memo story

In the weeks following the disclosure of the Downing Street memo, U.S. newspapers offered little coverage of its content. Stories that were published included very little, if any, original information about the memo, preferring to restate facts that had been available since the Sunday Times' initial story.

<snip>

Television coverage also lacking

Coverage of the Downing Street memo on prime-time network and cable news programs has been even more limited. No channel aired a prime-time report on the memo until more than two weeks after its May 1 publication. Besides the initial mention of the memo by Fox News host Alan Colmes on the May 11 edition of Hannity & Colmes, initial reports on CNN's Wolf Blitzer Reports and MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann on May 16, and a panel discussion on the June 6 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, the memo did not receive significant prime-time coverage until after Bush and Blair were asked about it at a June 7 press conference.

Continued @ http://mediamatters.org/items/200506160002

[Just Me]

16. I agree. The CM is complicit in betrayal of our Constitution, our people.

Face it,...corporate media has betrayed its duty to serve the people by informing our people of THE FACTS which impact all of us.

CM is as guilty of "high crimes and misdemeanors" as the predators who have exploited our trust and honor.

The corporate media will NEVER gain my trust because they have betrayed me and my friends and family and people. That mark is forever. They have a LOT to PROVE for a LONG TIME before they can EARN my trust.