CBS News Pushed Book It Owns

[rodbarnett]

CBSNEWS PUSHED BOOK IT OWNS; '60 MINUTES' DID NOT REVEAL PARENT COMPANY'S FINANCIAL STAKE IN CLARKE PROJECT!

SOURCE: DRUDGEREPORT



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[yardwork]

1. This will backfire.

It will remind people that two or three corporations own everything in the world. The Bush WH doesn't want that information to get out.

[Ernesto]

21. Agreed

It would not be wise (for the chimp's handlers) to piss off the press durring the campaign.

[Caution]

2. What a shock...

Drudge

[LynzM]

28. Yeah

Someone on another board I'm on used quotes from Drudge to back up her argument that Clarke was only on there to sell his book and make money for CBS. Again... who would be an acceptable dissenter from this admin?!?

[Jackpine Radical]

41. Legitimate dissent is an oxymoron.

All who say otherwise will be required to report for ideological reprogramming.

[teach1st]

Huh?

(Clarke's) allegations are also made in a book, "Against All Enemies," which is being published Monday by Free Press, a subsidiary of Simon & Schuster. Both CBSNews.com and Simon & Schuster are units of Viacom.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/19/60minutes/main607356.shtml

From the CBS Sixty Minutes page, but I thought I heard this statement on the show, too.

[Fovea]

25. Two words

Michael Powell.

Media concentration is the problem here.

[SOS]

32. Another example for Drudge to post...

Midge Decter wrote a glowing "personal biography" of Rumsfeld.
She's a right-wing PNACer.
Her book was published by Regan books.
Regan is owned by Harper Collins.
Harper Collins is owned by Fox (Murdoch).

So if Decter appears on Fox to push her book, will Fox reveal the business connection?

Many right-wing books are published by Fox/Haper Collins.
If the right-wingers want to persue this idiotic line of reasoning, we'll have plenty to fire back with.

[sangh0]

3. The response is

"So who owns a media corp affects what it says?"

Then tell them who owns and runs Fox, The NY Post, The Washington Times, etc

[bushisanidiot]

8. You forgot Clear Channel

n/t

[AP]

4. Synergy is a surprise to anyone? Why do they wait unitl it's Clarke's book

before they tell anyone that this is all these shows do.

Psst. CBS NIGHTLY NEWS TREATS WHAT HAPPENS ON SURVIVOR (WHICH IS TAPED MONTHS EARLIER) AS 'NEWS' AND REPORTS ON IT!!!

[Stephanie]

7. The question is WHY isn't this story leading EVERY broadcast on EVERY

network?

The question is, who is NOT talking about the book?

[proud patriot]

10. Exactly

Whenever pukes point a finger, they have three fingers
pointing back at them .

pukes need to quit whining about the game they started .

[AP]

14. Yeah. To me, the implication is that, but for the corporate connection,

they would have totally ignored the book.

CBS cares more about Michael Moore-level profits on books than on actually getting Bush out of the White House.

And you can bet they'll be trying their damndest to repair whatever damaget this causes Bush in the run up to Novemeber (if 2000 is any indication of where their loyalties (to profit) lead them).

[chelaque liberal]

11. They all do, that's way television news is bogus, just empty calories.

[Sagan]

5. NBC and FAUX push candidates that THEY own...

Namely, Chimpy and friends.

[SharonAnn]

31. CNN pushes AOL and Time as if they're news,

instead of "sister" organizations all owned by AOL/Time-Warner.

[BlueEyedSon]

6. Good, let their profit motive sink the Bush admin.

[GregW]

9. Please don't hide Drudge links

Many of us here refuse to give him the hitcounts to justify his existence.

PS - It was sort of obvious this was Drudge, but newbiews would have clicked anyway.

[yardwork]

12. Also, clicking on Drudge loads your computer with pop-up ads and SPAM

crashing many systems. A word to the wise. Stay away from Drudge. The site is filthy in more ways than one.

[rodbarnett]

15. I did not hide anything

didn't you see the Drudge Siren :)

[ElsewheresDaughter]

13. New Press(not Free) subsid of Simon Schuster is a subsid of MSNBC.not CBS!

www.cjr.org/tools/owners/

[robbedvoter]

19. Dagnabbit! I was hoping to help CBS out too when I bought the book!

Now I contributed to the Savage stattion? #@%*&@!:argh:

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

24. According to Amazon.com

This is published by Free Press, which is a subsidiary of Simon & Schuster which is own by Viacom, which also own CBS.

Now does anybody want to explain why there wasn't an outcry in the 1980's with NBC -- owned by the largest manufacuturer of nuclear reactors -- aired an NBC "White Paper" extolling the virtuation of atomic energy?

[markses]

16. And this discredits the information in the book how?

If they can't argue against the man or his claims, they argue against the 60 Minutes show?

What pathetic babies.

Bottom line: Bush and his crew were dangerously out of step with the events of the contemporary world, and thus laid us open for the 9/11 attacks. They were incompetent, and everybody fucking knows it but the crybabies and swirly-eyed lunatics on the right wing.

[MrBenchley]

17. Through a No-Bid contract?

Wow....what a lame response from the right....

[Name removed]

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[Jack The Tab]

20. The link is to F***ing Drudge's site! Please indicate a slimeball source..

That way I can ignore it.

[Bridget Burke]

22. News flash: "Matt Drudge is against Capitalism"

Why does he hate America?

[mac56]

23. He hates us for our freedoms.

x(

[Manix]

26. meaningless slur to divert attention the truth!

[rinsd]

27. Whhhhaaaaa?

Did 60 minutes say antyhing about this?

If not, who cares? When local newscasts are telling me the latest on American Idol or Survivor. Or when people with debuting sitcoms happen to show up on network news shows or sporting events.

I didn't see the special but did they say anything about this? Would have made me feel a little better but this is still par for the course for major media.

[Octafish]

29. So what? It shows CBS is pretty damned brave.

Golly, CBS also published "House of Bush, House of Saud." That's TWO more truthful books than Murdoch, Drudge, Hannity, Limbaugh, Novak, Will, Coulter and the rest of the swillmasters have between them.

[Hekate]

30. Give CBS a round of applause!

The real question is: why isn't this on the front page of the Los Angeles Times this morning instead of in the middle of section A?

The next question is: why are the twits on CNN treating this like a "he said/she said" spat between a disgruntled former employee and his former boss instead of the latest smoking gun?

Last night there was a thread about who has left the administration and whether they are speaking out against it. There were about 20 people, all professionals with years of experience and great credentials, and most of them saying some pretty damning things. They include four ambassadors/diplomats, several generals, FBI agents, CIA agents -- for God's sake, what will it take for our alleged news media to start the drumbeat? What will it take?

Hekate

[Marymarg]

33. one word comment

So?

[Moderator]

34. Just For the Record - Drudge Link

Mods are allowing it.

[Freddie Stubbs]

38. It was mentioned on CNN Headline News earlier this evening

[surfermaw]

35. CBS said

Roberts said the same company that owns CBS which is Vicom are the owners or publishers of the Book, he also went on to say that Vicom had no hold, over 60 minutes. not sure of the spelling of the company name.

[TiredTexan]

36. Please let people know when you link to Drudge.

I make it a point never to frequent that site as it just inflates his numbers and ego.

[alcuno]

37. Hannity's book published by Regan who is owned by Murdoch

who owns FAUX. Is this a game?

[PaDUer]

39. Judith Regan??

the scumbag supposed debater?

[alcuno]

40. Correct. On FAUX, all roads lead to Murdoch.

I wonder what the Murdoch contributions to the Heritage Foundation and the AEI are. Do you think he would fund right-wing think tanks and then repeatedly have them on as "guests?"