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MinM's JournalMichigan Media in the bag for Snyder
Detroit reporter tells 'On the Media' national press reluctant to cover Flint water crisis http://bit.ly/1SbQjKa
Sounds like a long shot but it's worth a try. Since the GOP controls every branch ..
of the State of Michigan Government. Largely thanks to Citizens United and gerrymandering.
So you know the GOP legislature and the corrupt as hell State Attorney General (Bill Schuette) won't do a damn thing about this.
Governor Snyder: how to get away with murder
Trashy Tabloid Can't Resist Publishing Untrue Story About Jimmy Hoffa | Deadline Detroit
Lengel: Trashy Tabloid Can't Resist False Jimmy Hoffa Story
By Allan Lengel
allan@deadlinedetroit.com
January 5th, 2016, 7:24 AM
In a drugstore or grocery store line, tabloids are like fool's gold, eye-catching and enticing and capable of duping the naive. Some of the stories seem so outrageous, so far fetched. Yet, we often glance at them and read the headlines.
I was shopping in a suburb the other day and saw the Globe, a 62-year-old paper that's part of American Media, Inc. , a New York publisher of magazines, supermarket tabloids, including the National Enquirer, and books. The front page headline reads: Search Ends After 40 years Jimmy Hoffas Body Found! It has photos of Richard Nixon, mobster Carlo Gambino and Sen. Ted Kennedy with the subhead: One of these three ordered him killed.
I did stories on the Hoffa disappearance years after the 1975 abduction, first for The Detroit News and then the Washington Post. So I bought it for $4.99, just out of curiosity and amusement. My mother used to love to read the tabloids, and Id buy them on occasion for her, even though I was often embarrassed to do so, and sometimes even told the clerk: This isnt for me, Really, its for my mother.
Ive had first-hand experience with tabloids. Starting in 2001, I was one of the lead reporters at the Washington Post on the case involving Chandra Levy, the D.C. intern who disappeared and was having an affair with Congressman Gary Condit. Condit was a person of interest in the case and made for good fodder in the tabloids, though he was never charged. At the Post, we were forced to run down the flashy tabloid stories about the case and Condit. More often than not, they were totally false...
read more: http://deadlinedetroit.com/articles/13988/lengel_trashy_tabloid_can_t_resist_publishing_untrue_story_about_jimmy_hoffa#.VowAGk9O-uK
Thanks for that piece. Listening to Fresh Air there seemed to be a disconnect
between what the filmmaker (Adam McKay) was portraying as the good guys and what we know actually went down.
Recording of JFK telling Sargent Shriver not to let CIA infiltrate the Peace Corps [audio]
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKPOF-TPH-17B-1.aspx
Date(s) of Materials: 2 April 1963
Physical Description: item 1 on 1 dictation belt (2 minutes, 13 seconds)
Copyright Status: Public Domain
Description: The recording of this conversation begins on Dictation Belt 17A.4. Sound recording of part of a telephone conversation held on April 2, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and Sargent Shriver, Director of the Peace Corps. They discuss speaking to Richard M. Helms about the suspicion that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is trying to place people in the Peace Corps. They also discuss facilitating the movement of members of the Peace Corps into the Foreign Service. Machine noise follows the conversation.
Transcript included. This sound recording was originally recorded on Dictation Belt 17B, which contains additional sound recording(s) following this one. To hear all of the recordings on the Dictation Belt, see Digital Identifier: JFKPOF-TPH-17B, Title: Telephone recordings: Dictation Belt 17B.
Contributor(s):
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Shriver, Sargent (Robert Sargent), 1915-2011
Series Name:
Presidential Recordings.
Subseries Name:
Telephone Recordings [Original accession].
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKPOF-TPH-17B-1.aspx
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110820336#post19
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025338852
billmon: Koch CIA is actually headed by hack GOP oppo researcher .. classic "deep state" stuff
Billmon has some great stuff on the [font color=darkred]Koch CIA[/font]...Kwitny: White Paper on El Salvador
Borrowed from the thread Did Bill OReilly Cover Up a War Crime in El Salvador? by DUer Judi Lynn...
Scott Simon of NPR on the other hand seems to have fallen into the Bill O'Reilly camp here .. along with most of the other mainstream reporters. I recall at the time that it sounded as though Simon was doing mostly solid reporting from that region.
Looking back at it now though and given what we now know really went (goes) on down there it's clear that the reporting from the likes of Jonathan Kwitny was the exception.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110837250#post6
BTW thanks for the kind words, Octafish. Keep up the great work.
BTW - Kwitny was featured in "Fear and Favor in the Newsroom (1996)"
An excellent documentary about the issues in the news business (which are much worse today than a dozen years ago when this was produced) by Studs Terkel:
Fear and Favor in the Newsroom (1996)
Kwitny: WETA in Washington and WNET in New York both welcomed us, invited us to come produce out of their studios, and would feed us to the system which wanted to broadcast us. The trick is that in order to do that, you have to pay them for those studios. They expect you to go out and raise the money, which means getting underwriting from corporations.
Nader: They are heavily based on local business donations, national corporate donations like AT&T and IBM, and also corporate foundations. And they have clipped their wings, and theyre as much subject to self-censorship as the commercial media.
Terkel: Shows such as this one, which examined the U.S. links to Guatemalas dictatorship, did not endear The Kwitny Report to corporate sponsors.
Kwitny : Guatemala. Thirty-five years after we intervened in that then-peaceful and democratic country, human rights groups say Guatemala runs on state-sponsored murder, torture and pillage of property from the destitute millions. And just as American business had spearheaded the overthrow of Arbenz in 1954, it was deeply involved in the new repression.
Speaker : In all, there were more than a dozen American firms where workers attempting to organize unions were assassinated. At the Coca-Cola plant, more than a dozen workers were assassinated.
Kwitny: The public-affairs shows are funded by corporations who want certain views put forward. Take a guy like John McLaughlin bear him no animosity but what kind of reporting credentials? He was a kind of cantankerous editor of a conservative publication, the National Review. I dont know of a single story he broke, or a reporting award he ever won. But the head of GE loved McLaughlin to such a degree that they gave him three not one, which is all I ever wanted; not two; but three national television shows, because he was saying the kinds of things that the number two defense contractor and major corporation would like to have said on television. And they could spend out of their pockets as much as it took to put him on.
Terkel: After its second year, in which it won the prestigious Polk Award for investigative journalism, The Kwitny Report went off the air because it could not secure corporate funding...
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2002/06/1502.shtml
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3381618&mesg_id=3382610
https://consortiumnews.com/archive/story39.html
Best & Brightest
Scary to think these clowns were running the Country. As NPR noted several years ago even with JFK's so-called "Best and Brightest" it took real leadership to get through tough times.
FRED KAPLAN: The point was - I think [font color=blue]George W. Bush had just been elected president, and a lot of people were wondering if he would be smart enough to deal with crises. And the common explanation at the time was well, don't worry, he has a lot of really smart people around him[/font]. And [font color=red]the point that you can take from the fourth draft of the history of the Cuban missile crisis is that the people around John Kennedy were really smart - I mean these were the people that David Halberstam later called, in a note of irony, "the best and the brightest," and yet John Kennedy realized that they really weren't very smart, after all. And the lesson of that is that you can have good advisors but the crucial thing is that you need a president. It's the president who makes the decisions[/font]...
http://www.onthemedia.org/2010/aug/27/missile-crisis-memories/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021414805#post12
Film Festival features Tim Busfield, Melissa Gilbert tribute
Good piece in the Lansing State Journal about Timothy Busfield and Melissa Gilbert...
Her grandfather created The Honeymooners, Busfield said. He created The Dean Martin Show. Shes from that world.
Clearly, these people who will be featured at the East Lansing Film Festival Wednesday -- had nothing in common ... except things that matter. They learned some of that gradually, after marrying in 2013 and moving to Howell...
Soon, a California kid was visiting Michigan on a night that looked like the inside of a snowglobe. By the time we got to Milford, she thought she was in Its a Wonderful Life, Busfield said.
That did it, Gilbert said. I fell in love with the state and the man at the same time. ...
Both had learned from the best. Landon showed his young actors a sense of fun and focus, Gilbert said. We were always expected to be very professional.
And Busfield had worked with writer-producer Aaron Sorkin, director Phil Alden (Field of Dreams and Sneakers) and the thirtysomething producers. It was like an extensive (American Film Institute) course, he said.
Most of the thirtysomething stars became top TV directors. On five series, Busfield has also been the producer who was in charge of hiring and supervising directors.
This season, hes directing seven individual episodes. In a late change, one assignment directing an Aquarius episode will keep him away from his home town on Wednesday, so hell do the film-festival event by Skype. Gilbert will be in East Lansing and Busfield will be on the set of a TV show... which is the opposite of how they started...
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/entertainment/events/best-bets/2015/11/09/film-festival-features-tim-busfield-melissa-gilbert-tribute/75298386/
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