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After a night of make believe in which the temperatures in New York plummeted, we are back in a cold reality than many hoped would have been dislodged, even “go away” in the aftermath of a federal indictment.

The New Yorker called last week “Hell Week” for Bush family fortunes which seemed to slip lower and lower. The magazine’s editor David Remnick seemed to think the sun is setting on the Bush Presidency and then thought again.

I don’t feel very optimistic despite the many signs he cites:

“As the diminishment of Bush’s political power has become plain, as his poll numbers have shriveled, his Democratic detractors could be forgiven a moment of thinking, At last! Bush had been unmasked in all his insularity, hubris, and executive incompetance…..

“But the lessons that Bush is likely to derive from the complex of recent disasters will not automatically lead to a more considered, modest, and moderate Presidency….

“The conservative insurgency that took shape in the think tanks, congressional offices, and activist groups of Washington a quarter century ago now inhabits the core of the Party. In his anger, and after all his many failures, the President, quite suddenly, seems unpopular, alone, and adrift. Thirty-nine months—five months more than John F. Kennedy’s entire Presidency—remain in the second term of George W. Bush.”

THE ICE MAN COMETH

He is not a President who admits error or changes course. He is already beating the drums for a new Supreme Court nominee, a man carefully chosen to carry the legal water of the right wing without offending. And the big media seems once again to be assuming the best as in this morning’s story in the New York Times praising the new nominee “Throughout his life, Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. has made his mark with quiet dedication rather than showy display.”

At the same time the Washington Post contasts Alito with Sandra Day O’Connor:

“In 1991, Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. voted to uphold a Pennsylvania statute that would have required at least some married women to notify their husbands before getting an abortion; a year later, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor cast a decisive fifth vote at the Supreme Court to strike it down.”

Despite the obvious desire by some in the mainstream middle to avoid confrontation, CNN reports:

“Conservatives lauded President Bush on Monday for his choice of Judge Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court, while liberals signaled a contentious confirmation hearing is ahead for the nominee.”

The Nation’s David Corn is a worried man:

“If the Alito nomination becomes the titanic battle that both sides in the judicial wars have been anticipating for years, the Democrats and their allies in the lobbying groups will have to successfully argue that he would do irreparable harm to the nation. If they stick to the same old strategies, they could end up wishing that Miers had fared better.”

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051114/cornweb2

HONORING ROSA PARKS

As we watch the official commemoration of the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks in the Capitol rotunda, we would do well to remember, as Paul Rogat Loeb writes in a commentary for Z Magazine that Mrs. Parks was not a lone ranger, or a celebrity icon but part of a movement that supported and created her as a political animal:

“Rosa Parks didn’t make a spur-of-the-moment decision. She didn’t single-handedly give birth to the civil rights efforts, but she was part of an existing movement for change, at a time when success was far from certain. We all know Parks’s name, but few of us know about Montgomery NAACP head E.D. Nixon, who served as one of her mentors and first got Martin Luther King involved. Nixon carried people’s suitcases on the trains, and was active in the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the union founded by legendary civil rights activist A. Philip Randolph. He played a key role in the campaign. No one talks of him, any more than they talk of JoAnn Robinson, who taught nearby at an underfunded and segregated Black college and whose Women’s Political Council distributed the initial leaflets following Parks’s arrest.

“Without the often lonely work of people like Nixon, Randolph, and Robinson, Parks would likely have never taken her stand, and if she had, it would never have had the same impact.

“This in no way diminishes the power and historical importance of Parks’s refusal to give up her seat. But it reminds us that this tremendously consequential act, along with everything that followed, depended on all the humble and frustrating work that Parks and others undertook earlier on. It also reminds us that Parks’s initial step of getting involved was just as courageous and critical as the stand on the bus that all of us
have head about.”

WHY THE LEFT IS LOSING

Bob Parry writes:

“… One of the reasons for today’s Republican dominance is that conservative operatives have long understood that modern politics has morphed into ayear-in-year-out, day-in-day-out struggle, not a process that gears up for afew months once every two or four years.

Over the past three decades, the Right has spent billions of dollars building a political/media machine that never rests.

So, when Republicans were defeated in 1992, they didn’t withdraw and wait for the next election cycle. They turned to their expanding media apparatus, especially talk radio, to go on the offensive against the new Clinton administration.

That aggressive strategy paid huge dividends in 1994 when the Republicans seized control of both houses of Congress and solidified conservative dominance over large swaths of the American countryside, now known as the Red States.

Meanwhile, the progressive community largely ignored the need to build a counter-media-infrastructure that could compete with the conservative message machine.”

[For details, see Consortiumnews.com’s “The Left’s Media
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/042805.html
Miscalculation.”]

WAR CLOUDS

Representative Ron Paul warns we have been warned:

“We have been warned. Prepare for a broader war in the Middle East, as lans are being laid for the next U.S.-led regime change – in Syria. A UN report on the death of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafig Hariri elicited this comment from a senior U.S. policy maker: “Out of tragedy comes an extraordinary strategic opportunity.” This statement reflects the continued neo-conservative, Machiavellian influence on our foreign policy. The “opportunity” refers to the long-held neo-conservative plan for regime change in Syria, similar to what was carried out in Iraq.”

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10833.htm

TELL THE TRUTH CAMPAIGN

As many of you may notice, we have been having some unwanted problems with this blog which has made it more difficult than usual to post and publish. As a result some of these problems, not everyone has had access to some of the information we want to share. At the danger of being repetitive let me recycle some of your comments and my own from files that may have been corrupted or otherwise not displayed for reasons beyond our control.

Notice we have changed the name of our campaign slightly because we have learned that many other organizations are about to launch a “SHOW US THE WAR” campaign with hopes to have sufficient resources to have more of an impact. Mediachannel.org land all our members will be welcome to participate. I will pass on the details when I get them.

No one here wants to own this issue even though I have been raising it for years in this blog, on Mediachannel and other sites, with my film WMD and books etc. If others can do a better job of reaching more people and involving more organizations, all the better.

So, to borrow a Bushism, I think we all say, “BRING IT ON.”

In the meantime, I am overwhelmed by all the response we are getting. 3500 plus comments with more every day. It’s heartening. Read the pages of support from our community. The scale of it all is impressive and growing. It is so clear that we have power if we can find ways of channeling it. We need to challenge the mainstream media and strengthen our own. We need to focus on the media as an issue and not get distracted because lives depend on it. And we need to create an action plan which we are.

SPECIAL THANKS

I have to acknowledge all the help and support of our Mediachannel team led by David Degraw and now joined by Vicki Assevero. Special thanks to our new outreach coordinator Jackie Newberry who is doing so much from our new base in Houston. Also to readers like Joe Dunphy, and Sarah Meyer (I have misspelled her name adding an S, unconsciously wanting there to be more like her) and so many others who keep sending in material from diverse sources. And to Doug George for figuring it out.

Keep it up and we can build this channel into an even mightier force in the media and democracy movement.

Now, on to your voices and comments that with one exception embrace and support our Tell the Truth About The War Campaign

WATCH THIS FIRST

From David Olson of Speakeasypro.com

http://ia300124.us.archive.org/0/items/Catapult/Catapult.mov

FROM ENGLAND

Sarah Meyer writes: “I hope you get lots and lots and lots of response.”

Read her well researched blog:

Iraq: The Unseen Dead
http://indexresearch.blogspot.com/2005/10/iraq-unseen-dead.html http://indexresearch.blogspot.com/2005/10/iraq-unseen-dead.html

MEMO TO THE MEDIA

From Tracy Baker:

“Be the profession you were created for. Tell the truth, show the truth. In other words, grow some balls”

Pat Hays to the media: “Redeem.”

” Now is the time for the media to redeem itself. They have a vulnerable target. They need to get off their backsides and do some investigative journalism. They need to stop whining about not having access to the President and the White House. No one told them that their jobs would be easy. They need to stop the embedded stuff…they compromise themselves in doing so. Do they want to win back our trust?….then start getting to the bottom of this. It is unraveling. It shouldn’t be that hard. People are defecting like rats on a sinking ship.

DO IT

Anita Ramsey writes from the Garden State:

” Hello Danny, Anita of Ramsey, NJ——-as usual you are right there w/what we could/should do. Besides staying active on the internet, signing petitions, emailing and calling the Capitol almost weekly, for the first time, on Nov 8th, I will vote for an independent incumbent for governor. They are the only ones addressing the real issues the tax payers wish to hear about. Corzine and Forrester have done nothing to PROVE that they will represent the tax payers. They have spent a disgraceful amount of money while our towns are having food banks at our supermarkets to feed the needy. So, I need to send a message and hopefully many other people will and cast a vote for the person out here telling us the truth because they live in the land we do, not the rich man’s wish to be a political celebrity. We have all learned, from the past number of years and so called elections, that we don’t have two parties. What is the difference between Dems + Reps are the corporations that own them and direct them. Perhaps, if enough of states vote independent the media will cover the out come and realize that the American Citizens are uniting to have our country back where we will have a say in where our tax dollars go.”

FOCUS ON VETERANS TOO

Linda Burke writes:

Here’s another untold story, and this one can be reported without risking life and limb! The Republican-controlled Congress has been systematically shortchanging the V.A. hospital system even as more new veterans desperately need their services. You can learn all about it on the American Legion website and the DAV (Disabled American Veterans) website. In particular, read about the narrow defeat of the Stabenow Amendment for stabilizing V.A. funding. The vote was divided along partisan lines, with Democratic senators voting to support the V.A., and Republicans voting to starve it. “This issue starkly illuminates the true priorities of the chicken hawk regime even as young soldiers are coming home mutilated in body and mind. It should have been front page news, but has been totally ignored outside of veterans’ organization websites. I’ve attached a copy of my letter to the editor on the subject.

WHAT THE MEDIA COULD DO

Pete Prammer has some ideas:

“Cut down on those “happy Iraqi” interviews in the Green Zone…..let’s have more interviews with average, everyday Iraqis, like Sunnis in Falluja and Ramadi and Shiites in Basra and Najaf.

“No need to show graphic blood and brutality……some candid” after-action” interviews with the innocent civilians, instead of just the usual “photo-op” with posturing army officers reporting another successful mission.

“Also, how about some stories about how some of our taxpayer money is really being spent, both by that new, “democratic” Iraqi government and by their American middle-men that we entrusted it to.

Thanks for listening!

THE PRESS HAS LET US DOWN

Rick Moniak writes all the way from Juneau Alaska:

“I am assuming you don’t accept attachments, so I am attaching this link

http://www.mfso.org/article.php?id=395

to a letter I wrote to Senator Stevens “demanding” he search for the truth about the war. I cc’d several newspapers. It was the third time I have contacted the Senator. I find it distasteful that no single newspaper has asked why the senate hasn’t investigated the full account of the so called flawed intelligence, and how they allow this most serious of issues to be played out as if our elected officials have a responsibility to their political parties. The constitution doesn’t recognize parties, nor do any of the
amendments to it. But the GOP has been the ones clothing the emperor, who without their undeserved loyalty, would be exposed for what he is, a coward. They are all political cowards, fearing political retribution if they stand for their own integrity and convictions by asking questions that need to be asked, while my son and his fellow soldiers face real danger everyday. “The press has let America down as well, acting like cowards while claiming allegiance to our soldiers safety. “Thank you for allowing me a
voice.

WHAT WE COULD DO

Dede Dancing writes:

“right on. call local television stations, and say “i want to see what’s going on in iraq”? i don’t watch tv, but of course i have friends and family who do, who would be happy to make a call or two. or would that not be the way to help?

“peace soon”

WE AGREE

William Hay: “Good idea! I concur.”

Kim Janek:

“Reform the media. I agree with Mr. Schechter’s article posted in Common Dreams.org.”

Gary Gilthvedt, Ph.D.

“I agree with Danny Schechter: Show the war, tell the truth. America responds to real news and to dish it out is a service to our democracy and future.”

Katherine Hodges writes:

” I am also in total agreement with Show the War - Tell the Truth. I want the lies of our government exposed. The 2000 KIA is sad and outrageous. There never were any WMD in Iraq. This war is based on lies and oil. Bring our troops home now!!!

FROM POLAND

joe marsh writes from Rybnik, Poland

WHAT’S THE NAME OF THE FRENCH NEWSPAPER THAT RAN THE GRAPHIC SPREAD???

I agree with you 100000000000000000000000000000000 PERCENT.

Answer: Liberation

“UNBELIEVABLY TRAGIC”

RD writes from Tennesee:

“Agree completely and hope and keep trying with what I can do.

“However, looking at the precarious situation of the U S economy and our National financial situation . . . I seriously suspect the U S has allowed ‘itself’ to be maneuvered into an inextricable position. We are no longer FREE; the people have yet to realize where we are.

“The politicians cannot act for AMERICA FIRST without the threat of the plug being pulled and bringing wreckage to our economy (and bringing problems ON THEMSELVES TO ACCOMPLISH NOTHING. They will not chance it (regardless of Public Opinion against the ‘war’ and we will not withdraw FROM THIS AGGRESSIVE PROGRAM and American taxpayers (and the Nations financial future will continue to pay the price and the men will still be coming home dead or wounded.

“This is an unbelievably tragic situation.

“What is so bizarre is that the Religious ‘conservatives’ who wave the flag and who you would suppose would be first FOR Righteousness and Truth have been the easiest deluded.

“WE DO NEED FULL AND HONEST REPORTING, REGARDLESS, AND THE PUBLIC CAN PREPARE THEMSELVES FOR WHAT IS TO COME.

( very few people really want to be wrong but I really, really do.”

“I AM SICK”

John Reynolds writes:

“I am sick of what has become of the the media in this country. I refer to it as TabloidMedia because all I ever see is coverage of someintensely emotional story about a murder of some pretty white woman or “reporters” standing in the wind and rain of a hurricane somewhere.

What happened to real journalism that covers the real issues of our time and those that affect us everyday? Edward R. Murrow must be rolling over in his grave!!!!! Where is the truth being told about this war. the wounded, the cutbacks of funding of mental health care at the Veterans Administration, the cronyism of the administration, the civilian deaths in Iraq, the exorbitant cost of health care coverage, etc., etc., etc? The media should be beholden to no one, but they seem to be afraid of the administration, the Pentagon, and big corporations. It is no longer about informing the public about the truth, but about making money and not making waves. I am sick of it!!!! I will continue to go to Common Dreams, Buzz Flash, and other non
mainstream sources for my information.”

Paul Brennan: “I join.I will speak up at every opportunity.”

A GREAT IDEA

Stephen Berk, Emeritus Professor, US History CSU Long Beach writes:

“This is a great idea. I remember well that mainstream media showing of the war in Vietnam is what finally gave CBS icon Walter Cronkite the courage to speak out against the war. The war elites knew this, and ever since they have worked overtime to keep America’s imperial wars off the small screen. We need film of what is happening on the ground in Iraq, just as we had in Vietnam. When I was teaching I showed lots of
films of the Tet Offensive and other marking events in Vietnam. How will historians visually document their lectures on the Iraq War? It is going to be much harder, what with the In-Bed-With-the-War propaganda journalism. This started with the Gulf War in 1991 (and I’ve yet to see any ground pictures of that) where CNN was highly touted for reducing the killing of hundreds of thousands to video games. And in Orwell’s America it’s been going on in spades ever since.

THE REAL COSTS

Mary Lawrence of St Augustine Florida:

Please consider coverage similar to truth telling of Vietnam in your reporting of Iraq. The people need to know the real costs of this war bothin dollars, American lives and Iraqi civilians. This, I believe, is the responsibility of the media in a free country.”

REMEMBER VIETNAM

As for Vietnam, Bill Smirnow sends along a letter that reminds us of its deadly impact:

“Also, according to Robert McNamara in “The Fog Of War” 3.4 million Vietnamese including a My Lai every single day of the war [just like the SS on a smaller scale]- see the article by John Kifner on page A24 of the December 28, 2003 NY Times. This fact is known throughout much of East Asia and other parts of the world but not here.

“This 3.4 million figure dosen’t include Laos and Cambodia. Nixon’s carpet bombing of Cambodia killed 600,000 Cambodians according to a CIA estimate which described the figure as “conservateive.” The US waged war in Indochina killed [and is still killing and causing birth deformities] anywhere from 4 to 6 million people. I’d strongly suggest that you get a copy of “The Fog Of War… That’s one September 11, 2001 after the other after the other for months if not years.”

Halldayville writes: “Lets Go. Ready to Rumble.”

TODAYS MAIL

Nick Damos writes from Mill Valley California::

I spent $9.50 (wow) last night to see “Good Night and Good Luck” and –to a 55-year-old C.A.B. [cranky, aging ‘boomer]–it made me want to cry most of the time…

“A longing for the era (my youth), the music, the clothes, the manners, the unbelievable balls of Edward R. Murrow (Straithairn’s portrayal was eerily accurate–I remember the Mike Todd Prologue in “Around The World In 80 Days that shifted from a video image to sharp color film…). That Murrow would jump in and take on slime-ball McCarthy (who socked national columnist Drew Pearson in the face in a restaurant and eventually drank himself to death) — this story has been so long in the telling and it’s so moving and riveting to watch…

“Our nation is being deconstructed, most of the citizenry as well as the poor are being abandoned, and the scraps are being sold off (along wth the Constitution) for pennies on the dollar…

“Fear is the current name of the game… I think the current Democrats in the Congress are really spineless, silent cowards. I don’t know Patrick Fitz’s motives or the wisdom of his actions, but I feel that at least last Friday he appeared to give the people of the U.S. the best civics lesson as well as new hope for resolving the mess that is W.Bush that is destroying the United States of America….

Do you have a mailing list?? (YES!)

Great Article…”

Gary Novak writes:

A whitewash of a whitewash is what I see in the media coverup of Plamegate. Even Counterpunch had to use the candy and stick approach for a political hack trying to hide an elephant under the rug.

The media is really muddling the intelligent design issue. As an independent scientist and evolution biologist, I have a concise and short perspective summary here:”

http://nov55.com/intd.html

Dorothy Hoobler writes from New York

“I always love your comments because you are right on the mark. Although I am not a lawyer, just reading the indictment one can see that it isolates Libby from the rest of the administration and enables the most narrow interpretation of the law possible. After all this was a two year investigation and the result appears to be the very best conclusion the White House could hope for. I sincerely hope that I am wrong.Keep up with your great work.”

Charles Robinson writes:

“I thought from the damp dry washer treatment of the story by the cable news idiots, that Fitzgerald might be looking for an out for the White House. The right hand spin gleefully supposes that the fact no indictments other than Libby’s were forthcoming essentially constitutes a vindication. The indictment of Libby was symbolic, based on a technicality. If that is true, why did he pile on thirty years worth of potential prison time, instead of working out a plea to making a false statement, and letting him do Martha time?

“I watched the press conference and read the indictment, and I don’t believe that this is the end of the case. In the indictment, there is not an ounce of soft pedaling about the seriousness of the actions that originally caused the investigation to be requested by the CIA. The predicating acts are directly asserted to be true, and to constitute a crime. Moreover, the time line makes it clear that the Grand Jury believes that others, including Cheney and including Karl ‘A’, conspired to disclose classified information regarding Valerie Plame’s work for the CIA.

“There should be no joy in Mudville and this is just the seventh inning stretch, to use more baseball analogies. Mr. Fitzgerald was careful not to bias at all any preconceptions about whether more indictments might be rendered from a subsequent Grand Jury. He is consistent, if nothing else.

“This is a process, and is not to be rushed. When you are attacking the King, you have to be careful and thorough. It is not frivolous, and truly not anything to be happy about.”

BE PROUD

Pia Raugh shares an encouraging word:

“And by the way - have you given it a thought why it is your blog that has hacked and blocked - and not Mediachannel?

“Along with frustration - BE PROUD!!! Basically there are two ways to have proof that you make a real difference. If they try to buy you - or if they try to silence you. And I guess that is the very basic test to all who try their best to enlighten to world: will you have the courage and stamina - if given the option - to risque being silenced rather than being bought!!! Isn’t this exactly what your corporate media colleagues have been facing and made a different choice from yours? They only admit this to themselves and the world when they are out and have nothing to lose - AND a pension.”

BLAST FROM THE PAST

Tom Cieslak from my old home town of Somerville MA:

I am from the Boston area and I can remember when you were our “news dissector” thirty years ago on station WBCN. I won’t go into what I think of WBCN these days but I felt I needed to reply to your latest installment on Buzzflash.

Sir, you sing out a litany of things that are wrong with this country and all the hypocrisies that are taking place. Kudos to you. You mention all that has gone wrong over these past five (or more) years and those are things that should be pointed out to “The People.” After all, we are the ones the Constitution was framed to protect. The one thing I don’t see in your article, and I have to admit here that I have only read the latest, is that people can’t just complain; that they have to do something about these problems. They have to register to vote; they have to get active in local party politics; they can’t just stand by while “others” determined their fates.

In the future, should you care to remonstrate the populace, please tell them that they are not a silent majority, and that they can get out there and let their voices be heard.

With all the respect I had for you in 1975…”

BRAZILIAN PAPER PRAISES WMD

Just to show how the media coverage of the war issue resonates, I wanted to share a comment from Brazil where my film WMD just played in the Sao Paulo Film Festival, one of many international venues in which the documentary has been screened

I had a letter yesterday: “Find below a review of your film published today in Folha de S. Paulo (the largest daily newspaper in circulation in Brazil).” I know most of us don’t read Portuguese but its cool to see it in print:

“ADM: ARMAS DE DECEPÇÃO EM MASSA”

Americano critica cobertura de guerra
MARCOS GUTERMAN
EDITOR-ADJUNTO DE MUNDO

m maio de 2004, o jornal “The New York Times” fez um memorável mea culpa sobre sua cobertura da Guerra do Iraque. Entre outras coisas, declarou-se arrependido por ter acreditado na existência das armas de destruição em massa de Saddam Hussein, principal motivo para o ataque. Tudo muito bonito, mas fica a pergunta: como é que um dos principais jornais do mundo -como, de resto, toda a imprensa americana- caiu nessa? Para Danny Schechter, veterano produtor de TV americano, a resposta envolve fascínio pela guerra, patriotismo fabricado e intimidação da imprensa meticulosamente planejada
pelo governo Bush.

Schechter é autor de “ADM: Armas de Decepção em Massa”, documentário que reconstitui em detalhes o trabalho dos jornalistas americanos às vésperas da guerra. O título original faz um trocadilho com “weapons of mass destruction” (as tais armas de destruição em massa do Iraque).

A chave do documentário está no raciocínio segundo o qual o governo Bush não teria conseguido criar toda a atmosfera hostil a Saddam que antecedeu a guerra se não tivesse a colaboração decisiva da imprensa. Schechter mostra de que maneira os jornalistas foram cúmplices da Casa Branca, e não vítimas
inocentes.

O governo criou várias estratégias para controlar aquilo que o Pentágono chamou de “quarta frente” da guerra -referência ao “quarto poder”. Numa das mais farsescas, os jornalistas “embutidos” nas ações militares dos EUA foram sistematicamente aterrorizados sobre as temíveis armas químicas do Iraque
-aquelas que nunca existiram. Resultado: os repórteres acreditaram na existência desse arsenal sem ter visto um único parafuso dele.

Houve formas mais sutis de cooptação, como a que explorou o deslumbramento com a sofisticação das armas americanas em ação no Iraque, “brinquedinhos” desejados pelos “meninos” jornalistas. Nesse ambiente, não há jornalismo crítico que se imponha.

“Finalmente, Schechter investiga de que maneira foi construído o consenso patriótico na maior parte da mídia americana, cujo principal efeito foi diminuir a importância e a visibilidade das evidências de que os argumentos contra o Iraque eram frágeis, para não dizer falsos. Essa “imersão
noticiosa” a que os americanos foram submetidos deixou o terreno livre para que Bush empreendesse sua desastrosa guerra.”

See www.wmdthefilm.com for more.

PROTESTS TOMORROW

“THE WORLD CAN’T WAIT Appeals:

“Hold a Vigil or Rally Against Bush on Tuesday November 2nd is the one-year anniversary of the election. Numerous organizations are working together to create vigils and rallies a ound the country against the war and against the Bush regime.”

For more:

http://www.worldcantwait.net

HELP US NOW

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Until tomorrow.

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