Quit Cheering Cspan

[Montagnard]

This morning’s program is a prime example of the con job that Cspan runs on the uninformed. The subject is the Medicare Prescription Drug Program. Pro side of the debate is presented under the name of the Healthcare Leadership Council. Unless you do a little investigation you would not know that the HealthCare Leadership Council is nothing more than a spokesman for the Pharmaceutical Industry. http://www.hlc.org/html/board_of_trustees.html
http://www.hlc.org/html/hlc_members.html

This is something that Cspan does time and again. The unaware are sucker punched by people taking a particular position because they are paid to do so

[annabanana]

1. It is their most common con. . .

Is there a handy reference page, with their most favored think tanks, along with the funding of same? It might be a useful bookmark for people watching.

[zanne]

7. The American Enterprise Institute...

You don't need a reference page to know that these guys are on C-Span ALOT. When I first started watching C-Span, I just assumed that the network was owned by the AEI. (They may as well be).

[BlueEyedSon]

2. Why do you think it's just CSPAN?These thinktank shills show up everywhere

[izzie]

10. I think this was a movement that started about 30 years ago.

When a person lost in a gov. job or Congress, he went into one of these think tank places and got good pay from rich Republicans who also had tax brakes to do this, to push their plans. It has worked well and Dem. were late getting into doing it. We used to have Unions that did a lot of this stuff.Churches, of a type, did the same stuff and started in on school boards etc. to get power. Since Dem. were in power so long I guess they just did not see what was going on. I will say I never figured people would be so silly as to go backward and let some half baked church guy tell people how to vote but then we do have Dobson and Roberson etc. so you can see how wrong I was. Have I sp. their names right?

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. They DO lean RIGHT...

Friday's aren't called 'fascist Fridays' for nuthin'! Brian Lamb hosts on Friday and HE is the one who started the network. Peter is a RWer...Log Cabin repuke. Steve is OBVIOUSLY a RWer. It's been PROVEN they lean right. The show was monitored and they OVERWHELMINGLY had RW guests on more often than Dems.

They are paid by the CORPORATE CABLE COMPANIES.

[nolies32fouettes]

5. A friend during the 04 campaign actually clocked the number of

minutes cspan gave to Kerry verses how many they gave to Bush and they gave Bush so much more time.

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. I believe it! If Brian Lamb isn't a repuke, I'll eat my arm off!

:grr:

[nolies32fouettes]

4. you ought to create a list of all of them that you know of

and create a resource website about it.

(Like a library online)

[0007]

6. That is an interesting idea. Like to see someone to do it

[acmejack]

8. We are aware that they are a mouthpiece of the corporations

They still have some quality educational material and good call in segments. Viewer beware... We had that noted Corporate mouthpiece Greg Palast yesterday, it isn't all bad.

[leftchick]

9. I think it was pretty obvious

listening to her where her bread was buttered. Have you seen the FAIR study?

<snip>

To test C-SPAN’s claims of fairness, Extra! studied Washington Journal’s guestlist, tabulating all 663 guests that appeared on the show in the six-month period from November 1, 2004 to April 30, 2005. Guests were classified by gender, ethnicity, party affiliation (if any) and occupation. The study also looked at the think tanks most prominently represented on the show.

Despite C-SPAN’s stated goals, Extra!’s study found Washington Journal skewing rightward, favoring Republican and right-of-center interview subjects by considerable margins over Democratic and left-of-center guests. The study also found that women, people of color and public interest viewpoints were substantially underrepresented.

Overall, people of European ancestry made up 85 percent of Washington Journal’s guestlist—563 out of 663. (Extra! was able to identify the ethnic background of more than 99 percent of guests.) People of African (26) and Asian (24) heritage accounted for 4 percent each, while those of Middle Eastern (22) and Latin American (18) descent represented 3 percent each. No Native Americans were identifiable on the guestlist from November 1, 2004 to April 30, 2005.

Looking just at U.S. guests with identifiable ethnicities (617 in all), European-Americans were even better represented, at 88 percent. African-Americans and Latinos held steady at 4 percent and 3 percent, respectively. Americans of Middle Eastern descent and Asian-Americans were each about 1 percent of guests. According to the U.S. Census, about 70 percent of Americans are white and non-Latino; about 12 percent each are Latinos of all races, and non-Latino African-Americans; about 4 percent are Asian-American and 1 percent are Native American. (Middle Eastern descent is not a census category.)

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2764

Brian Lamb refuses to address this.

[trof]

11. Yeah, didn't need a google search to know where she was coming from.

[peacetalksforall]

12. AEI and Heritage Foundation have enormous funds. They have

employees and associates whoa re lawyers, doctors, scientists, political scientists. No matter what the subject, they have an expert that can appear on C-Span overnight depending on what C-Span wants to cover. They seem to be immediately available.

Then, they conduct continual seminarsnrs that C-Span covers.

There is NO parallel to these organizations and individual in the Democratic Party.

Though I say 'experts', I mean they have made themselves into actors/actresses who present themselves as experts and have gained some expertise by study or former experience - BECAUSE they have been well funded.

Also think of the AEI as the think tank that helps PNAC carry out their plans.