There’s a reason the news isn’t in your paper or on TV.

[Octafish]

Was the diverted plane for Jenna and Barbs in your paper?

I don’t think the story was in the two big Detroit area newspapers, although it may’ve been buried somewhere or I missed the day’s edition it was in.

If you haven’t heard, the First Twins had a jet diverted to pick them up in Albany, or wherever they were in New York state. I wouldn’t have known that if I wasn’t scanning DU.

http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/news/3612076/detail.html

How many Mr. and Mrs. Americas out there, as well as little Master and Mistress Americas, have missed the story? I would think that it was big news: It’s like the Bushes think they’re royalty or something.

http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=822&POSTNUKESID=72685d15d7bc83464ef61c20d63ea042

Well, if the nation’s massed media got of their duffs, We the People might discover it’s an important story. At least, a portion of the people might decide it’s important.

The really important thing is The People be given the chance to make up their minds. But, they can’t without the facts. And that’s why things are the way they are, the BFEE can’t afford an informed populace, so they play the tune called by the likes of Allen Dulles on the Mighty Whorelitzer.

So, when Corporate McPravda misses the mark on little things, like the jet-setting royalty from Crawford, one can pretty reliably conclude they’re going to drop the ball on the big Thing.

One thing you can count on, is Big Media will shill the BFEE Big Lie. Here’s the biggest they spread: Bush is not a crook.



http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2003/Bush-Nuclear-Arms10aug03.htm

[LiberalTechie1337]

1. Actually, MSNBC ran this story about 10 minutes ago

of course they provided the usual RW spin, at which point I stopped listening

[Octafish]

6. Thanks for the report!

Perhaps the story will get some legs, which would be great.

Do you remember this, five weeks after 9-11?



Bush looks even nuttier in person.
How could anyone LAUGH after 9-11, let alone the "president."
No wonder Chretien called him "not a moron."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/bob/01/2001_bob_16.html

[VoteDemocratic2004]

2. It's like calling a Taxi to the little spoiled brats

Except they pull the passengers out of the taxi and pick the brats up instead.

It wasn't on the front page of my paper either.

Can you imagine if Chelsea had pulled a stunt like the brats did? It would have made world news and been replayed over and over again until after the election.

[Octafish]

8. Same goes for every pro-DEM story -- zilch coverage.

Eary Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles termed the press a "Mighty Wurlitzer" after the theater organs that played the score and supplied the sound for the silent movies and later kept the crowd entertained before the talkies. One CIA program, Project MOCKINGBIRD actually described the "hundreds" of CIA media assets. Another, project embedded undercover US Army "interns" at CNN and NPR. Some scary stuff for those who take their Democracy, Republic and Constitution seriously.

http://mprofaca.cro.net/ciapress2.html

[stevedeshazer]

3. Remember the alleged Clinton haircut on the tarmac?

The press went nuts.

[shraby]

5. Olbermann covered it

quite nicely..quoted a regular passenger from that run who said the airline had never done anything like that before.

[Octafish]

9. The American press is depressing. What if Novak is CIA?

What if he was ordered to release Valerie Plame's name? Oh. I repeat myself.

Where is the American press on the real issues?

It sides with the LIARS!

That's a crime.



The American people have long suspected somethings's going wrong. Woe to the gangster publishers and broadcasters when an honest Attorney General and FCC head come to Washington and bring to the light of day the criminality and treason of the BFEE. That day drives their obvious desperation in their portrayals of the unelected moron.

[jackstraw45]

4. $15 billion airline bailout will do that....

US Airways is at Bush's service.

[Octafish]

10. That's a lot of money. For a lot of airplanes.

Press seemed to miss that one, jackstraw45! It also missed the one that says it costs about $60,000 bucks an hour to fly Air Force One and the Little Turd from Crawford is flying up a storm on the taxpayer's dime to fund-raise and campaign and such. The guy would be in jail today, if the public knew what the heck was going on. Well, the public would if such large numbers weren't brain-dead from watching repug reruns, quasi-fascist reality shows and mindless sports. And to the turds of the BFEE, news is just another form of entertainment to be dished out. Who picks up the tab is the US Constitution, the nation it helps form, and the "We the People" part.

[wellstone_democrat]

7. A little lie in that article....

when I was on a plane that had mechanical probs in Boston (stranding far more of us than 22) they didn't "divert" anything, they just cancelled the flight. Sure, an airline is going to go from Boston to tiny Albany (comparatively) for 20 passengers if Bush* twins weren't among those "stranded"


What absolute crap

[Octafish]

11. That's right. Twenty passengers would more than make up the inconvenience.

And the added gas cost. And the schedule screw-ups. And the lawsuits.

Yeah, wellstone_democrat, these people have zero shame.

Perhaps we can use some jiu-jitsu on the press. Use their lack of momentum to our advantage by asking newsrooms and city desks:

"Why isn't this in the paper?"
"Why wasn't this covered in your broadcast?"
"Why did you leave this information out?"
"Why was your coverage biased?"

[DustMolecule]

12. The twins stick-their-tongue-out at those 22 passengers

...more bush family 'sharing the love'.

(geez I wish I had saved that pic to post in this message - dang!)

[Octafish]

14. Bush Says She Discussed Gesture With Jenna

The Associated Press, which provides (an uneducated guess) about half or more of each newspaper in the nation's content, used the opportunity to bash Kerry:

Bush Says She Discussed Gesture With Jenna

By Associated Press

August 4, 2004, 12:37 PM EDT

WASHINGTON -- Everyone does things and says things they are sorry for, first lady Laura Bush observes. And she's not necessarily talking about plain-speaking Teresa Heinz Kerry.

SNIP...

Bush wouldn't offer similar advice to John Kerry's wife, who has told an insistent reporter to "shove it" and responded to Bush supporters' chants of "Four more years!" by saying "They want four more years of hell."

When asked if Heinz Kerry's "shove it" comment was appropriate, Bush said: "It's hard when your husband's running for president. It's hard to be scrutinized and to hear the criticisms, and I think that's really what the fact of the matter is in what she said."

SOURCE:

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-brf-laura-bush,0,1912464.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

Whateverhappenedtojournalists?



Read: "American Department of Information"

[scottxyz]

13. McPravda!

I love it!

[Octafish]

15. McTruth...Sometimes the word fits better than the concept.

Here's the real source of news in America since November 22, 1963:

THE PRESS AND THE JFK ASSASSINATION

If any large element of our news industry, such as NEWSWEEK, or NBC, or CNN, for example, decided to conduct a thorough, objective review of the JFK assassination, significant and historic progress could be made in the case. The single-bullet theory could be disposed of in relatively short order. At least some of the photographic evidence could be properly examined. The acoustical evidence could be thoroughly evaluated. Many of the numerous surviving witnesses could be interviewed. Previous interviews with important witnesses could be analyzed with voice stress analysis. Credible leads developed by private researchers could be pursued. The unlikelihood of the theory that Oswald fired all the shots could be further established. The specious stories of several surviving members of the Dallas Police Department could be subjected to the scrutiny and analysis with which they should have been examined long ago. In fact, ALL of these things could have been done years ago, and the network or newspaper that did it would have had an historic, major news scoop, a scoop worth millions and millions of dollars for years to come.

JFK assassination documentaries continue to be of high interest. Indeed, in the last four years alone major news outlets have broadcast or published several "investigative reports" on the case. Tragically, however, without exception these "reports" were error-filled, superficial defenses of the lone-gunman theory. In some instances, it appeared that the journalists who wrote the reports made no effort whatsoever to study scholarly works critical of the lone-assassin scenario.

Why is this still happening? Why does our news industry seem almost incapable of giving the American people the truth about the assassination? Most journalists are liberal, according to media surveys. If so, why aren't they interested in seeing to it that the public gets the real story about President Kennedy's death? Why do they seem so intent on defending the essential elements of the Warren Commission's version of the shooting? Why do they continue to defend the single-bullet theory, in spite of the massive and growing evidence that the theory is not only invalid but impossible? Why won't they give this evidence a fair hearing?

I think we might find the answers to some of these questions by reviewing previous analyses of the press's treatment of the assassination.

CONTINUED...

http://karws.gso.uri.edu/JFK/the_critics/griffith/Press_and_assassination.html

[seemslikeadream]

16. Be afraid BFEE be very afraid

The Octafish never SLEEPS!