It's been a bad week at 30 Rock. The long knives are out as Katie Couric claims she was pressured to positively spin Bush's Iraq war while NBC "Today" show hostess the same day a former MSNBC reporter said the same. "Was Press A War Enabler?" NYTRe: Katie's blast: A spokeswoman for General Electric, which owns NBC and MSNBC through its division NBC Universal, declined to speak about the specifics of the comments but said, “General Electric has never, and will never, interfere in the editorial process at NBC News.”
Jessica Yellin, the ex-MSNBC chick now at CNN, "revised and extended" her remarks: "No, senior corporate leadership never asked me to take out a line in a script or re-write an anchor intro. I did not mean to leave the impression that corporate executives were interfering in my daily work; my interaction was with senior producers. What was clear to me is that many people running the broadcasts wanted coverage that was consistent with the patriotic fever in the country at the time. It was clear to me they wanted their coverage to reflect the mood of the country."
From GE's corporate website: GE Infrastructure is one of the world's leading providers of essential technologies to developed, developing and emerging countries. Through products and services in aviation, energy, oil and gas, transportation and water and process technologies, GE is helping to develop the infrastructure of countries all over the world. GE Infrastructure provides aviation financing as well as energy and water investing, lending and leasing.
Make Them Accountable: GE has a long history of participating in governance around the world. The company has protected its financial interests by involving itself through active intervention and bribes in Indonesia, Mexico, Lesotho, Egypt, Israel, and Japan, among other countries.
On May 6th Chris Matthews confessed that MSNBC was "basically pro-war."
Nobody mentioned GE's role as one of the richest defense contractor raking in millions. Global Security Defense Industry Daily GE sold off its aerospace division to Martin Marietta in 1992 for $4 billion. TIME
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The single fact out of all the finger pointing is there was no aggressive follow up questions to the Administration when they pronounced WMD is real or that there were lots of allies during the buildup.
Secondly, the Democrats didn't ask any tough questions either.
Everyone was enveloped in being "patriotic" so as to avoid being "against us" as the Commander in Chief so ably painted any dissent.
Absolutely correct, my friend! The chickens are coming home to roost, as they say, and the culprits are being fingered...
Bottom line, folks....a lot of people on both sides of the news feeding frenzy, from publicists, think-tankers,and main stream press were all worried about making a buck. Don't forget that after 9/11 everything stopped. There was a lot of insecurity. The shame of it was that insecurity was exploited by those who had a lot to gain war profiteering.
It's all about money...
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