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Knightskye
05-29-2008, 12:51 PM
Anderson is shocked! :cool:

Is it all falling apart? Thanks to Scott McClellan's new book?

EDIT:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqzvy4VTMBI

acptulsa
05-29-2008, 12:53 PM
Anderson is shocked!

Yeah, sure he is. Got a link?

OptionsTrader
05-29-2008, 12:54 PM
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OptionsTrader
05-29-2008, 12:55 PM
Related:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24854188#24854188

MRoCkEd
05-29-2008, 01:01 PM
yeah - remember jesse ventura and phil donohue were both canceled - they both opposed the war

reminds me of the part in ron's book where he says that even the so called "liberal media" was all for the war, and a watchdog group offered money to anyone who would ask tough questions about prewar intelligence

Bruno
05-29-2008, 01:01 PM
Wow. Great timing with the McClellan story.

MRoCkEd
05-29-2008, 01:09 PM
bad timing for mccain

haaaylee
05-29-2008, 01:21 PM
impeachbush.org is loving this.

acptulsa
05-29-2008, 01:23 PM
Rupert Murdoch has put himself together one hell of a PR agency.

FrankRep
05-29-2008, 01:43 PM
link?

jmdrake
05-29-2008, 01:50 PM
Here's the story.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0508/CNNs_Yellin_Network_execs_killed_critical_White_Ho use_stories_.html


CNN's Yellin: Network execs killed critical White House stories

On Wednesday night, CNN's Jessica Yellin talked to Anderson Cooper about Scott McClellan's tell-all memoir and agreed with the former press secretary that White House reporters "dropped the ball" during the run-up to war.

But Yellin went much further, revealing that news executives — presumably at ABC News, where she'd worked from July 2003 to August 2007 — actively pushed her not do hard-hitting pieces on the Bush administration. [UPDATE: Yellin now says it was MSNBC execs, not ABC]

"The press corps was under enormous pressure from corporate executives, frankly, to make sure that this was a war presented in a way that was consistent with the patriotic fever in the nation and the president's high approval ratings," Yellin said.

"And my own experience at the White House was that the higher the president's approval ratings, the more pressure I had from news executives — and I was not at this network at the time — but the more pressure I had from news executives to put on positive stories about the president, I think over time...."

But then a shocked Cooper jumped in, asking, "You had pressure from news executives to put on positive stories about the president?"

"Not in that exact.... They wouldn't say it in that way, but they would edit my pieces," Yellin said. "They would push me in different directions. They would turn down stories that were more critical, and try to put on pieces that were more positive. Yes, that was my experience."

UPDATE: TVNewser reports that Jessica Yellin is going to post a blog item shortly on CNN.com that will clarify her remarks. From what I'm hearing, she'll write that it was MSNBC execs, not ABC that she was referring to last night. Yellin worked at MSNBC during the run-up to war, but then moved on to ABC that summer, where she stayed for four years. UPDATE 2: Yellin confirms this.


Regards,

John M. Drake

bucfish
05-29-2008, 01:56 PM
Anderson Cooper is CIA trained, Elitists (The Vanderbilts) scum. He and his elitists brethren are the ones working to own are A$$'s

So do you want that nifty, little RFID Chip in your right hand or in your forehead?
In the works, www.rfidjournal.com

liberteebell
05-29-2008, 02:04 PM
I'm shocked, I tell ya,,,,SHOCKED! :eek::eek::eek:

Knightskye
05-29-2008, 04:20 PM
link?

Sorry, could've sworn I put a link there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqzvy4VTMBI

I'll edit it in.

LibertyCzar
05-29-2008, 09:39 PM
Anderson is shocked! :cool:

Is it all falling apart? Thanks to Scott McClellan's new book?

EDIT:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqzvy4VTMBI

Anderson is just jealous because he wanted to be the first reporter to say he was pressured from the higher ups.

Knightskye
06-07-2008, 10:06 PM
Bump!


Anderson is just jealous because he wanted to be the first reporter to say he was pressured from the higher ups.

Well, I don't think he'd want all that negative publicity. And then a lot of people wouldn't trust him, so yeah. :p