Free Press??? Ha!!!!!!!!!!! "Fuher Press" is more like it !!
Hey Folks,
If you think we have a Free Press, if you think "dictators" and the Bush Administration don't have much in common, give a listen to this Fresh Air interview on NPR (and watch the FRONTLINE piece Tuesday nights, Feb. 13, 20, 27 at 9:00 p.m.):
The Future of the News Media - Fresh Air from WHYY, February 12, 2007 · Investigative reporter Lowell Bergman is the producer of the new FRONTLINE documentary, News War: Secrets, Spin and the Future of the News. The series is about the mainstream news media and the political, legal and economic forces at play.
Listen at:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7363240
From the PBS/FRONTLINE website:
News War: Secrets, Sources & Spin (Part I)Feb. 13, 2007 at 9pmCorrespondent Lowell Bergman examines the relationship between the Bush administration and the press; the controversies surrounding the use of anonymous sources from Watergate to the present; and the unintended consequences of the Valerie Plame investigation -- a confusing and at times ugly affair that ultimately damaged both reporters' reputations and the legal protections they thought they enjoyed under the First Amendment.
More & Videos at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newswar/preview/
- Uke Man
If you think we have a Free Press, if you think "dictators" and the Bush Administration don't have much in common, give a listen to this Fresh Air interview on NPR (and watch the FRONTLINE piece Tuesday nights, Feb. 13, 20, 27 at 9:00 p.m.):
The Future of the News Media - Fresh Air from WHYY, February 12, 2007 · Investigative reporter Lowell Bergman is the producer of the new FRONTLINE documentary, News War: Secrets, Spin and the Future of the News. The series is about the mainstream news media and the political, legal and economic forces at play.
Listen at:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7363240
From the PBS/FRONTLINE website:
News War: Secrets, Sources & Spin (Part I)Feb. 13, 2007 at 9pmCorrespondent Lowell Bergman examines the relationship between the Bush administration and the press; the controversies surrounding the use of anonymous sources from Watergate to the present; and the unintended consequences of the Valerie Plame investigation -- a confusing and at times ugly affair that ultimately damaged both reporters' reputations and the legal protections they thought they enjoyed under the First Amendment.
More & Videos at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newswar/preview/
- Uke Man
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