Bill Moyers and Dan Rather expose media deception on Iraq
Writing by abuhatem on Saturday, 7 of June , 2008 at 9:17 am
Bill Moyers, a former adviser to President Lyndon Johnson, and the author of the documentary Buying the War which exposed the media for the run up to war in Iraq, sat down with media analyst and journalist Greg Mitchell last night on the new Scott McClellan book and the media “propaganda campaign” as the former Bush press secretary put it, involved in the run up to war.
Here is a preview:
Mitchell is funny:
GREG MITCHELL: Yeah, what Charles Gibson said. We wouldn’t — I don’t think we would ask any different questions. I mean, it’s shocking-
Yes! In the words of an 8 year old “no duh.” Moyers’ program last night was some of the best TV in a very long time. Good for him in continually raising the bar and challenging people. He has a very far left bias, but Moyers is much more intelligent and a better journalist than the entire cast of ideologues at Fox News and Al-Jazeera English combined. They also debunk the radical conspiracy theory that TV news is false, or that all TV media is controlled by a government or lobby or group or that it is not free:
JOHN WALCOTT: Yeah, but there are some terrific reporters in television — you know, at the Defense Department in particular. Jim Miklashevski at NBC, David Martin at CBS. What I think happened in part was another problem, which is they have sources. Believe me. I wish I had some of the same sources they have. But whatever information came from those unnamed anonymous sources is trumped by Donald Rumsfeld at the podium or Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice saying, “We can’t allow the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”
Mitchell will be answering questions on Bill Moyers’ blog next week, so put in a word.
Here is Dan Rather, who spoke, along with Moyers I may add, at the National Confrence for Media Reform which is a left-wing progressive group working against media bias. Rather just lambasted the press during the run up to the Iraq war, and does a good job I may add. Dan, we miss you on TV:
Category: The media
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