Former Bush Press Secretary Scott McClelland on the Press:
If anything, the national press corps was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington, the choice over whether to go to war in Iraq.and the all to easy reply...? (via Time's James Poniewozik and CJR, again)
It would be nice to believe that the shame of being called too wimpy by the guy whose job it was to keep the media in line would give the press more backbone during the next war or after the next terrorist attack. I’m not betting on it, though. It’s easier for the press to get courage, and for press secretaries to get scruples, after the fact.Yeah, Scott. Your moral clarity showed up about four years too late.
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While what he did was really beyond the pale, his job was to report what information he was given. While some may have seemed lies to many of us, and that he should have challenged, his duty was to figure out how to package info he was given, not to vet the information. Yes, I still detest him, but I think without question it is the media that deserves the primary focus. A failed media, driven by corporate power and greed, which did not tolerate anti government opinion. A Media which has no devotion to the truth, only to profits. Our constitutional republic was set up to survive a McClellan or Bush, it cannot in my opinion survive a failed fourth estate.
No argument. A media that was too distracted by profits - or too lazy to invest in actual reporting is a bigger disappointment than the current administration.
The fact that we STILL have not seen major network coverage of the supposedly independent military experts speaks volumes about their dedication to reporting the truth.
We don't feel our viewers would be interested is shorthand for How dare you question us? You'll take what we give you and like it.
Gleen Greenwald's excellent post exposes ABC's laughable claim that they'd been skeptical enough in covering the lead up to war.
In furthering my point, the FSM created the politician, then created lies to give the politician something to do. Then the FSM created the media so that we could truly enjoy the farce that is the politician. A key part of that equation is missing.
Gibson is truly a piece of crap here. He essentially says we were critical of the administration and the record shows he is flat wrong. So Gibson apparently has neither the time nor the inclination to check what he puts out over the air. The emperor may have no clothes, but these worthless bastards have no skin.
FSM...? As in, his Divine Noodlely-ness?
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