them should be her jewels shirts in new delhi who took the money they'd be the true story collection among the clothes and. maidens original believe that the louis de mint isn't shit and it was from those very precocious moments. welcome back here's a recap of the main stories we're covering today on our t.v. a protest against wall street and corporate greed go on nationwide in the u.s. census five hundreds of arrests demonstrators say the mainstream media is ignoring the rapidly growing campaign. euro zone's finance ministers put off a decision on a crucial bailout loan for greece after athens admitted it won't meet deficit deadlines but i agree greeks already claimed the a sturdy measures imposed by the government aren't. libya's transitional leaders name a new cabinet to govern the country until its full is secured meanwhile and to gadhafi

troops continue to bomb the colonel's received stronghold of sirte which the red cross says is suffering from a humanitarian crisis. that's we offer you an investigation by a journalist who explains how us corporations influence the election process of america fire talk radio that's coming up just now on our take. when jasmine. san antonio weighs in trying. to. keep the crowd. young it. is not about.

our story begins to bring the great depression times were hard and broadcasting was brand new it seemed like a miracle. i'll see our friends get it into the few files behind your radio guy. wherever you may be to radio brought entertainment and secrets can news of the world right into your own home most of them just broadcasting retained faith it was hope. in the spirit our government made policies to make sure the media protects the public funds and clear ways arc of the book a proper big book of broken in the church of comically charged with the responsibility of protecting the people before the f.c.c. decided broadcasters needed to be licensed the licenses were free of charge but there was a catch t.v. and radio owners had to serve the public if they did not people could challenge their slices and the f.c.c. could take them away. and the f.c.c.

understood that radio and t.v. should be owned hopefully so they passed strict rules limiting the number of stations any one person can l.a. into and here to stay a week old a six hour break by n.b.c. . then came your. and radio became a lifeline. for preservation of. the information we were getting was vital the only that's a date which will live. in infamy important or national security important to our democracy our earth is at work moral freaky for mom and we learned this new media could be used against us each and every night if they are after thirty after. her yankee her or. her. or

her for what they did of course for those fascist regimes was it just broadcast over and over again the information and the perspective the point of view and the propaganda that they wanted people to guy just absorb and so the federal communications commission back in one nine hundred forty nine incorporated something called the fairness doctrine the fairness doctrine require radio and t.v. stations to provide coverage to fight only important controversy on issues and to provide a reasonable opportunity for the presentation of contrast to the points you ask to bring them on the path to give people the opportunity to express an alternative point of view now it was a code that served us well good evening to the administrations of truman eisenhower kennedy johnson nixon ford and carter more generally like. robert reich. and then a real media mayor came into power with that i will faithfully execute the ronald

reagan was the keen deregulation of his f.c.c. deregulated t.v. and radio of some one person could own dozens of broadcast ations nationwide and send the free market would provide fairness and broadcasting so they got rid of the fair to start. anyway back then republicans and democrats passed a bill to reinstate the fairness doctrine and newt gingrich and trent lott are co-sponsors. but ronald reagan. the one thousand nine hundred six telecommunications act suddenly allowed big companies like clear channel to own twelve hundred stations nationwide and brown program them with conservative talk radio was on in may in spots and this was only to say that the bars. were looking at the five largest operators where we found was a nine to one or ten to wanted fan to each of conservative talk show hosts self

declared conservative hosts versus folks who declared themselves liberal or progressive. advantage of roughly twenty five hundred hours of conservative talk as opposed to two hundred fifty hours of liberal or progressive talk this is an extraordinary grounds but in places like houston texas for example. we found looking at monday through friday consumers for radio stations one hundred percent conservative talk no progressive no liberals represented in the two thousand and seven study by free press and the center for american progress that shows ninety two percent of conservative stations don't air even a single minute of the other side you want to hear a radio talk or bash republicans good luck especially if you live in the midwest mainstream thought that breaks the inside the beltway mystique but you might hear it schultz ed does his nationally syndicated show out of fargo north dakota and his

ratings are good he's matching bill o'reilly's numbers. don't see talkers magazine now is out the ed schultz show has got over three million listers progressive talk we got it starts in two thousand and four and it now seems to be having an effect many formerly red states that heard ed and noble and air america were highly competitive were voted blue in two thousand and eight while those that heard only conservative talk went read. as usual good mate but here's the scary part since the democrats made gains in the two thousand and six election corporate radio took to get a into every other progressive talker in the key swing state of ohio off the air first and. then columbus and replaced them with shows they get half their exit while they're out there greasing the skids right now in the winter of o's seven with a zero point six number. when i

was on there in the fall of zero five it was like a two point four brain scan is strange to me you did it. and market it you can have and probably it isn't just ohio since two thousand and six doesn't so well performing liberal programs have been taken off the air across the country fresno new haven san diego austin and many more i think that's a lot of hope and i don't think there's any doubt you can look at the numbers this business is owned by conservatives it's managed by conservatives and it is programmed by conservatives the distorting effect of all that was causing a problem in our democracy was causing people to act based on false information to make decisions about public policy to make decisions in the voting booth based

on simply information that was wrong and that there had to be a corrective to that and so in may of two thousand and four i launched a media matters media matters is a research website which tracks conservative misinformation in the news it's a simple concept record with talk show hosts and news can say then check their facts turns out there's a lot of false would also it was david brock news to perpetrate author david brock uncovers evidence about anita hill but has been since or by liberals the right time pattern of crime sexual harassment or political radicalism and most important are likely motivation for destroying the career of clarence thomas then he learned he'd been lied to i came to be aware that the people around clarence thomas who had helped me write that account. didn't believe the account themselves same with rocks troopergate story that led to the paula jones lawsuit the judge

dismissed that case because it had no merit. in other words it was a frivolous lawsuit and that whole thing led to president clinton's impeachment. i just couldn't. what i was doing anymore once i realized what it was he'd been working for a newspaper magnate richard mellon scaife who paid the american spectator magazine two million dollars to dig up dirt on the clintons the information didn't need to be true just damaging the conservative movement also had a hidden media agenda well they claim that their complaints is one of liberal bias i think and i look pretty carefully at the summit looked at many of the studies that claim this at the end of the day the real goal is to disable journalism from being able to do its job independently and troy jane a tree and her husband steve wilson were an award winning investigative reporting teams or can it get you t.v.

news in tampa bay florida first then they uncovered a story about four months being secretly injected into our milk supply t.v. team ran this promotion for the investigation to start a cancer nobody else in the country covered this and then they get fired for trying to tell the story when d.t.h. manufacturer monsanto threatened to sue fox news w t v t pulled the report then tried to get the investigators to change their story. but the reporters wouldn't back down they can ask you to put things on the air broadcast to the public over the public airwaves that are untrue that are unsubstantiated or flat out on true and that's also what they were asking us to do they crossed that line and that's an important distinction to make so a korean wilson threatened to report the news distortion to the f.c.c. that's when did you fire them very courageous they file a whistleblower suit you know they go to trial a korea tourney john chambliss the surfaces the lawyers. this. all of the year and

from there on in throughout an effort is made to sort of talk to scientists or to distort the story in a way that we will do that monsanto these folks refused to do in this weather for steve's wilson played his own case you know what this story cost. two careers. and i want it. there was only one way or wilson could win under judge roll steinberg instructed the jury for they'd have to prove w. t.v. station management had deliberately tried to distort the news proof of a violation requires that the planners establish that the via t.v. tease station or news management acted intentionally and deliberately to falsify or distort plainness proposed a news report on d.g. eight wilson lost the genie cre won her case because she threatened to disclose to

the federal communications commission on your oath the broadcast of a false distorted or slanted record yes so a creep proves news distortion and you wouldn't know it from the spin on t.v. tease their thirteen representatives say the jury through its verdicts clearly stated that the station did not tell me and will send to falsify and distort the news through their b. g.h. story i think we are when it indicated on the finding of this theory that we do not distort news for lost wages eighty eight thousand seven hundred and twenty five dollars let us not have to do with the store show the news it is not the do falsification of the us for last earning capacity one hundred twenty thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars i think today is a wonderful day for boxer two for other damages two hundred fifteen thousand five hundred and twenty five dollars fox appealed the jury's decision which is that he and their attorneys argued there is no law against distortion and you haven't found

a stash. you haven't found a rule we haven't found regulations what we're doing is importing you into this news distortion falsely and it went to the second district court of appeals in florida and they bought the fox argument that yes the policy of the c.c. but it's not technically against any and all rule of regulation to the store managers what they're saying is the news really belongs to the corporation that that's putting it out and that it's not to cancel water why do the public. it's an f.c.c. rule but it's not against the law where does that leave us as people who are served by the broadcast airwaves or think bush president is still part of the socialist and completely funded by the rules they create and wilson ended up paying fox attorney fees. the road to war in iraq took some strange turn stranger than a do you torture the west african country of the sheer force which do hold government accountable like this can constitute

a lot of money from the a team of people that looks into research and travel and production just to air would eight minutes story to build a nuclear bomb explode they've largely been replaced with coverage like this the costs very little in the cold interview that means profits for shareholders and divert your attention really because you know whatever happened to investigative reporting and i think part of what happened is corporatization of the media it's the bottom line so the first thing you do is you fire a quarter of the newsroom or half the newsroom so you don't even have the reporters that go out there and to get the story it's you know how can you get a quick and i can tell you it's a lot cheaper to have two people arguing on t.v. from you know you know polarized point of views than actual reporters out there going at the story and saying ok america here's the facts you just said it maybe. it's the. media consolidation means you were reporters and those who remain too

often feel pressured to play nice with government it's a nasty little game called access that is one of the biggest media manipulations is you want our guy you want our one well you better play the game you better play by our rules if you want that we call that in our field interview some real headline maker everybody wants to get on there you want that person that's a valuable commodity you. report again the top newsmakers in the bush administration were a great counselor and they were all over the airwaves as they made their case for war in iraq and where were the hard questions. at this moment i think the press dropped the ball i think when they should have been the real watch and should have. let the chips fall where they may they did paul totally and they did this they say in the run up to the war it was so clear for two years we

were going to war and nobody asked why but we now know that saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons high quality aluminum tubes which is what you have to have an order to go to suitable for nuclear weapons production there were no weapons of mass destruction with the person that the first thing to scare everyone we don't want the smoking gun that could come in the form of the mushroom cloud no ties to al qaeda and we do have solid evidence of the presence in their right of. members there was a pattern that they should set the wind back at least a decade for iraq and al qaeda was a lot of obvious deception at a time when it was crucial for our country which was right after nine eleven they felt that they had to be super patriots and support the government no matter what they gave up their one weapon which were skepticism out of the news terms three

peat at the administration will. be to have a conflict between iraqi diplomats were to time and time and pictures saddam hussein quit his biological weapons laboratories in trucks little turned out to be true awesomely talk shows instead of providing clarity on the single most of mine an issue of our generation the press only created confusion it is a smoking gun is an interesting phrase six years after the attacks on new york's. only in the pentagon the newsweek poll showed forty one percent of americans saddam hussein was directly terrorist attacks and i don't think we ever should least i know i didn't say that there was a direct connection between september eleventh and saddam hussein nobody's ever suggested that the attacks of september the eleventh were ordered by iraq and no wonder the news media has lost the public trust they want to make policy choices

based on truth and what i heard is that people didn't really quite feel that the mainstream media in the media as we most of us experience. was truth telling group fairness and accuracy reporting did a. study. two weeks around february fifth two thousand and three right before the invasion the four major nightly newscasts n.b.c. a.b.c. c.b.s. and p.b.s. news hour with jim lehrer there were three hundred ninety three interviews down around war only three were with antiwar leaders three of almost four hundred when half the population was opposed to the invasion that is no longer in the mainstream media that's an extreme. in the drums for war a recent new york times report says the media got right in bed with the pentagon to promote the war former military officers would get talking points directly from the pentagon than say them on the air no questions asked if

a certain standard. is needed. talking points imagine an iraq ruled by the message needs to be american back unless you know any country talking point blank iraq to iran i believe iran is now the number one threat maker in iraq that's bad enough but a lot of these chemical and pundits were making big money from defense contracts to the t.v. on the radio. kerry analysts have ties to military contractors people could possibly be making money. most would consider that a potential conflict of interest maybe not even potential at the same time reporters who did ask hard questions were punished by the white house luckily their managers stood by the reporter jonathan landay covered speech in august two thousand and two to the veterans of foreign wars many of us are convinced that saddam hussein will acquire nuclear weapons fairly soon that was based on

absolutely nothing it was as if it was pulled out of thin air there was absolutely no intelligence no evidence whatsoever for that assertion so randy and more and began writing about forty intelligence about how there was no link between iraq and al qaeda but failed policies that series of stories one station of people in the pentagon tried to shut me out of travel with the secretary of defense i was not allowed to have not been allowed or invited onto a trip pentagon trip since for three years. the chilled by white house correspondent. he had been trying to get on the vice president's plane in early two thousand and four there were some things that the vice pres office didn't like that we wrote. there was no play it's my belief that

a lot of journalists did not ask hard questions of this administration's policies particularly in the run up to the war in iraq because they were afraid of losing access and having happened to them what happened to me and has happened to others an example of why media ownership matters to democracy before reporting. sheds light on the reasons why they are being asked to go and risk life and limb and health and family and everything else. then we're doing our job and if that displeases the circuits are defensive and it's we says the vice president so be it . still he's a bit out with we trusted as we knew. his job with the m.p.'s to stop him is the biggest scandal of the bush administration is the story of reporters who protected their access to top officials first and put their responsibility to the public laughs. the story really begins with him vassar joseph wilson wilson was the

acting ambassador to iraq before the first gulf war when saddam hussein took more than one hundred americans as hostages joe wilson stared him down saddam hussein backed off and released the americans for that president george herbert walker bush proclaimed wilson a national hero. then that hero heard president george w. bush make this statement in the two thousand and three state of the union address the british government has learned that saddam hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from africa a year earlier the cia had sent wilson to investigate the uranium claim and he knew it wasn't true their level of corruption there is demonstrated from the top down is staggering to the american people so he wrote about it in the new york times that touched off a firestorm at the white house columnist robert novak tried to discredit wilson by writing

a story that wilson's wife valerie plame who worked at the cia sent him on the trip trouble was she worked as a spy for the cia nobody was supposed to know she works there the cia even told no that not to publish that information but know that they had. told me he asked me not to use your name did not say she was a she was a covert employee and i still don't pull in she was engaged in any covert activities former president bush was not. used human intelligence spies. is very important. it's pretty hard to get it. or somebody working clandestine service because his name is going to appear and i'm sure the code place deputy defense secretary richard admitted he was the first to leak the spies name and he apologized for it. but white house staffers karl rove in lewis libby also

spraying the covert agents name to reporters at the same time sharing to the president's own press secretary they had nothing to do with it and they're good individuals they're putting the burden of our white house team and that's why i spoke with them so that i could come back to you and say that they were not involved i went to both those individuals asked them point blank were you involved in the leaking of valerie plame identity and anyway both them told me unequivocally no but scott mcclellan now says in his new book rove and libby lied to him and it turns out a lot of reporters knew it but said nothing and stomach well the white house spokesperson gets up and he says karl rove is absolutely. well there were at least three probably four people if not in that room the watch still alive and various news organizations the knew that that was a flat out lie because they had talked to karl rove about hillary plame and who she was good with were so eager for access to the white house they allowed themselves

to be used for political gain using the reporters in effect to carry out their political mission and that's different from cultivating a source to get information that's of value to you as a journalist here you are being used by the parliament official to carry out their political work instead of clarifying the facts in this national security breach the media just had a free for all i think that while i always you know upsets you. this is a she wasn't covert which is just ridiculous was she in fact a covert agent was never even proved there's no doubt that her relationship with the cia was part of if you give the identity of a classified person it doesn't mean diddly squat to be a covert agent and i still don't believe. he knew whether she was covert or not from day one and she isn't she's never been proven to be covert to endangering national security by outing a covertly i offered it was an article where she was not

a covert operative the i.a.e.a. says that she was for the record valerie plame wilson was a covert agent the cia put it in writing.

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