Monday, September 27, 2004
60 minutes wont air a segment that could hurt Bush's reelection!
So much for the forth estate, isn't it the media's job no matter what political party is the current office holder to hold truth to power?
No matter what the right-wing or their talking heads say on FOX or the other networks simple fact is the Bush administration lied our country into war using bloated or unvetted or out right forgeries to lead us into a war we are currently loosing. They wanted this war since 1997 to secure their oil fields and secure strategic dominance in the region and they got their chance by hijacking 9/11 and using our fear to conduct this war.
The media's job is to speak truth to power, no matter what, if it makes the current leadership squirm, GOOD they need to squirm, they need to be made nervous; the media's job is to make sure the powerful knows it's boundaries. What true whores they are, if John Kerry lied us into a war I would be just as rabid against him and I would expect the media to jump all over him for lying and I believe the same standard should be applied to everyone. Every time I watch Cable news I wait for some brave reporter to come out swinging with he evidence we all have proving Bush and Cheney liars and the only thing they have for their viewers is "Kerry flip-flops" or other senseless crap, I don't give a shit about Kobie or Scott Peterson's trials, I give a shit about Lacy and her baby and Kobie's victims not what those assclowns wore on their court appearances, doesn't that degrade their deaths or that violent act?
I wish we could have a BBC here, boring straight up news, of course BBC hasn't been perfect over the years but compared to our news BBC is fucking gospel.
So the fourth estate has left their job to you, the viewer, the blogger, the citizen.
It's up to you to distribute the news, investigate everything and keep the people in power honest if we don't the powerful will use it's power to dig it's claws deeper into their seats.
Fuck you (C)BS News.
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BS News said yesterday that it had postponed a "60 Minutes" segment that questioned Bush administration rationales for going to war in Iraq.
The announcement, in a statement by a spokeswoman, was issued four days after the network acknowledged that it could not prove the authenticity of documents it used to raise new questions about President Bush's Vietnam-era military service.
The Iraq segment had been ready for broadcast on Sept. 8, BS said, but was bumped at the last minute for the segment on Mr. Bush's National Guard service. The Guard segment was considered a highly competitive report, one that other journalists were pursuing.
BS said last night that the report on the war would not run before Nov. 2.
"We now believe it would be inappropriate to air the report so close to the presidential election," the spokeswoman, Kelli Edwards, said in a statement.
So much for the forth estate, isn't it the media's job no matter what political party is the current office holder to hold truth to power?
No matter what the right-wing or their talking heads say on FOX or the other networks simple fact is the Bush administration lied our country into war using bloated or unvetted or out right forgeries to lead us into a war we are currently loosing. They wanted this war since 1997 to secure their oil fields and secure strategic dominance in the region and they got their chance by hijacking 9/11 and using our fear to conduct this war.
The media's job is to speak truth to power, no matter what, if it makes the current leadership squirm, GOOD they need to squirm, they need to be made nervous; the media's job is to make sure the powerful knows it's boundaries. What true whores they are, if John Kerry lied us into a war I would be just as rabid against him and I would expect the media to jump all over him for lying and I believe the same standard should be applied to everyone. Every time I watch Cable news I wait for some brave reporter to come out swinging with he evidence we all have proving Bush and Cheney liars and the only thing they have for their viewers is "Kerry flip-flops" or other senseless crap, I don't give a shit about Kobie or Scott Peterson's trials, I give a shit about Lacy and her baby and Kobie's victims not what those assclowns wore on their court appearances, doesn't that degrade their deaths or that violent act?
I wish we could have a BBC here, boring straight up news, of course BBC hasn't been perfect over the years but compared to our news BBC is fucking gospel.
So the fourth estate has left their job to you, the viewer, the blogger, the citizen.
It's up to you to distribute the news, investigate everything and keep the people in power honest if we don't the powerful will use it's power to dig it's claws deeper into their seats.
Fuck you (C)BS News.
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