an email i just rec - media suppression

[AmandaRuth]

t just gets weirder.....

Mass Media In 'Lock Down' - Not To Cover Vote Fraud
By Peter Coyote 11-13-4

On Friday I received a phone call from a good friend who works at CBS
-- I've known her for years and she is a producer for some of the
news programs, one well known one in particular. She tipped me off
that the news media is in a "lock-down" and that there is to be no TV
coverage of the real problems with voting on Nov. 2nd.

She said similar "lock-down orders" had come down last year after the
invasion of Iraq, but this is far worse -- far scarier. She said the
majority of their journalists at CBS and elsewhere in NYC are pretty
horrified -- every one is worried about their jobs and retribution
Dan Rather style or worse.

My source said they've also been forbidden to talk about it even on
their own time but she was pissed and her journalistic and moral
integrity as what she considers to be a gov't watchdog requires her
to speak out, while be it covert and she therefore asked me to
"spread" the word...

She said that journalism and the truth is at stake. She said another
friend of hers, a producer at MSNBC, said that an anchor by the name
of Keith Olbermann had brought it up on his show on Friday eve and
the axe came down. He's at least fighting back and talking about it
on his "Blog", but she said that people there are worried that he's
going to be fired by higher ups. She said at this point the only way
that the "real news" was going to be heard was if the people started
talking about it and made a big enough stink about it to our elected
officials, the FEC, and "noise" to the international media, that our
own media won't have any choice but to cover it.

[LeighAnn]

1. Grounds for a lawsuit, no?

If they're being forbidden to talk about it, even in their own time?

What's all this???

[Warpy]

5. Totalitarianism

and until they all grow balls and backbones, it's all we're going to see.

I've stopped watching all those RNC talking points and lies of ommission on the television parading as journalism. They are compromised beyond repair.

I'd suggest everyone else do the same. A 49% drop in their audience will be noticed, even if the ideologues in the boardrooms try to shrug it off. Advertisers will certainly figure it out.

[Skip Intro]

2. "You saw what we did to Rather,,,"

Can't you just see it?

[Selatius]

3. Can anyone here say "trust busting"?

We desperately need to find candidates who aren't afraid to bust up some of these corporate news giants. The news medis should never have been allowed to become this consolidated. We should compell those we support for office to pull out all the stops and use the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. It's been used far too little these last few decades.

[Poiuyt]

4. Who's imposing the lock-down?

Is this across the entire range of main stream media? Or just the major networks? What kind of pressure is being put on them to keep quiet? What are the penalties?

It's been pretty obvious that the media hasn't been doing their jobs. In the past the media would love a scandal to dig their teeth into. But now the silence is deafening.