MSNBC brings up Downing Street Memo

[formercia]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6409077/

The Downing Street Memo, continues to gurgle under the surface. The latest is that some people are taking the story where the media doesn't seem to want to go (again). AfterDowningStreet.org is about moving past the actual memo and asking what the repercussions should be. This is accompanied by a blogger collective calling itself the Big Brass Alliance. It's very hard to tell how many people care about this story, but today at least, it looks like the calls for investigation and even impeachment are growing.

[MelissaB]

1. kick

[elehhhhna]

21. MINUTES! not Memo. There's a big difference.

[Stampy52]

24. Yes

It is important, when you talk about the MEMO (because that is what it is, memo is short for memorandum. minutes are a form of memorandum. clear?) to assert the seriousness of the memo (from a legal standpoint).

it is also important not to confuse joe dumbass by changing the terms.

the downing street "minutes" does not exist in the news. clear?

[demo dutch]

36. Who cares! The Brits have called it "The Secret Downing Street Memo"

and it CONTAINS the MINUTES of the meeting Blair had on July 23, 2002 during which officials reported on talks with the Bush administration about Iraq.

[BattyDem]

2. This is great news ...

but I can't help but wonder how long it'll be before they start bringing up Clinton's name and somehow attaching it to this story. :eyes:

[FreedomAngel82]

14. Oh of course!

They can't do anything without blaming Clinton. Oy! It gets really old. Can't they find someone else to blame?

[BigBearJohn]

3. Oh, happy days!

[bleever]

4. Here it comes.

The hubris of tyrants has always been their downfall. Someone's about to get his turn.

Too bad he never learned history.

[driver8]

5. Oh man...I would love to watch the downfall of these criminals...

How great would it be to watch the neonazicons cry like the little prison bitches they will become?

I'll bet Georgie cries the loudest...

"Daddy...the mean 'ol democrats are pickin' on me again!!"

[rocktivity]

30. WAAAAAHHHHH! DRIVER8 IS PICKIN' ON ME!!!"

"I'M TELLING MY DADDY ON YOU! WAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"

:headbang:
rocknation

[driver8]

32. Rocknation...hilarious!!

I'm going to tell big Dick on you!!

[babylonsister]

6. Now might be the perfect time to zip MSNBC e-mails

requesting actual on-air coverage about the MINUTES for inquiring minds to edumicate themselves. :evilgrin:

[blm]

8. Ask why they never book the KnightRidder reporters who broke the story

here in the US. They always booked reporters who broke ANY story about Clinton.

Landay and Strobel reported the Bush White House was cooking the intel books since Oct2002, and no broadcast media will allow their stories to get airtime.

[berni_mccoy]

7. It's not that well covered

It's burried on their blog page...

BUT I'll take it. An avalanche starts small too, but like an avalanche, this story eventually will wipe out everything in its path

[AuntiBush]

23. Oh, for Pete's Sakes.... Look what they're blogging about on MSNBC

Forget that our country is swirling down the Fascism-tubes. Our troops are dying every day in a war based on lies, and the corporations are taking Americans down into the wrath of bankruptcy. Oh and did I mention our Freedoms shot to hell, like the Patriot Acts I, II, and II... and ready to have more done to it, and the Nat'l ID ACT!

No, they'd rather scream like idiots about the below crap.

MSNBC sees the big news from FReepers more important:

snip

My colleague Alex Johnson's article (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8047423/) today about the American Family Association's boycott of Ford for "promoting the homosexual lifestyle" has definitely set our "letters to the editor" mailbox on fire (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4838957/), and it's making an impact among bloggers as well.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6409077

end snip

WHAT SIGNIFICANCE does this have with all the MAJOR problems facing us and the world!?!? Honestly!

[Stampy52]

25. do something

and be a part of the tidal wave. be apart of the campaign to wake up mainstream media. go to "take action" on www.downingstreetmemo.com

[Cha]

29. AWAKEN THE MAINSTEAMMEDIA!

Excellent site..thanks and Welcome to DU, Stampy!

[kster]

9. The reporters probably can't

wait to jump on a real story ,after five years of spewing propaganda.
They probably can taste the sweet smell of real reporting for a change.

Come on guys ! Get your feet wet. It won't hurt. Jump on the story. YOU CAN DO IT! :hi:

[wallwriter]

10. I'd love to see this gain more steam,

but I'm still very skeptical about seeing it happen in the MSM.

[Pacifist Patriot]

11. I have vowed to do at least one thing every day

to keep the story alive and move towards impeachment. Today I sent my letter with enclosures to Reid, Pelosi, Conyers and Dean.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3763109#3769296

[AuntiBush]

20. Same here. We should all take the Vow not to let ANYONE Ignore this!

And Ohio & Florida and the list goes on and on...

Right-on Pacifist Patriot!

[rocktivity]

12. It's on MSNBC'S blog page--BOOOO!!!

That's not directed at YOU, Formercia, but at MSNBC's idea of a look-down-their-noses co-existence with the blogosphere.

When they learned that bloggers had been invited to the Democratic National Convention, MSNBC assigned their reporters to file "personal" blogs online along with their "normal" coverage and didn't see a drop of irony in the fact that the blogosphere was born out of their mandate to act as an extension of the Bush empire's PR department.

So MSNBC mentions that the Downing Street memo has been mentioned on a blog, and now I'm supposed to nominate them for a Pultizer prize? Well, guess what--I did a search of MSNBC.com on the Downing Street memo, and came up with four other blog entries, Tim Robbins mentioning it on Hardball, and a San Francisco affiliate's story about--wait for it!!!--an http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7928142">online organzation that's trying give the DMS more mainstream media exposure! BIG EFFING DEAL!!!!! (Them, Formercia, not you!)

Now please excuse me while I turn this post into a letter to their Web editor.

:mad:
rocknation

[AuntiBush]

18. Well. There ya go. Too "wussy" to put it on the tube!

That's OK. Online bloggers and journalists will put them out of business someday soon. Then what will they do!

:kick:

[Jo March]

13. Good. I emailed them a bunch of links today

AuntiBush compiled a list of links that address the DSM and I emailed them to MSNBC.

I'm thinking that others did as well.

I've noticed that the "i" word has been mentioned!

:woohoo:

[AuntiBush]

17. Thanks, arnheim! You won't believe this but I sent a complied list, too!

Hey, we won't let them ignore this one, right! Thanks! :)

We'd make a great team! All of the various members of the DU group are like one huge think-tank! Love it! Gives hope, you know... when we feel we have none which is literally every :banghead: day!

:loveya:

[Jo March]

34. Well, I still have a lot of links on the VOTE database

I can blast the media tonight as well. I'll just do a mail merge and send out your list to the 800+ email addresses that I have.

We won't let this one die. We can't. It's like election reform - it's just too important to slack off or give them a pass on it.

:hug: to AuntiBush!

[killbotfactory]

15. This pisses me off...

First they don't report on the damn thing, and then they say "Golly, it's hard to see how many people actually care!" How do you expect people to care if you don't do your fucking job and give a coherent report about it?!?!

:mad:

[AuntiBush]

16. Wrote them "again" last night and literally begged!

I called out to their hearts and true patriotic duties; even mentioning their children and grandchildren. I went for their hearts.

Question: Was this mentioned on network TV or on their website, only?

See, that's what ticking me off. I mentioned that to them heavily stating that many people, especially our elderly do not have access to the Internet and many have no clue...

[Stampy52]

22. Downing Street Memo ACTION ALERT

Well, the strategy is to focus on 3 mainstream media outlets per day, which is thought to be much more effective than the this unorganized clusterfuck that has been the dominate trend.

take time now to read it at dKos
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/2/81018/97195

if you would like, go to www.downingstreetmemo.com and the take action link will have a daily update on the 3 media outlets being targeted.

And I did not see mention of this off the mainpage. Maybe it has already scrolled into oblivion, but this fight is the next big fight for progressives, liberals and democrats alike (I know they overlap, don't point it out). Can someone please get this effort the attention it deserves?

-stampy

PS - These forums are ridiculous. Let me say this, I have browsed the forums before. I have never registered (not all that interested, to be honest).

I am a member of the dKos community, and I have been *attempting* to search DU for word of a VERY IMPORTANT announcement. That is, members of the blogosphere have put together a focused campaign to wake up the mainstream media Re: the downing street memo.

But what's this? I cannot do a search unless I give you money! That is in terribly poor taste, whoever came up with that genius idea.

And what else, I cannot make a post for 24 hours because I use gmail. So I had to use my school email account.

Oh, and what else? I cannot create a post. I have to reply to a certain number first.

Let me say this, if you are trying to discourage trolls or whatever, this would only dissuade the weakest and least determined among them. The only real defense is alert moderators.

So now I am jumping through the hoops, all the while a really important topic may or may not receive coverage. A really important action alert, for our movement (all of us) may never be heard.

And really, this is the most ridiculous forum I have ever experienced. Your "defenses" are not so much deterents as fucking headaches for legitimate new users like myself.

[AuntiBush]

31. Bookmarked & Will Continue to Stay Informed from that Website.

Thanks for the reminder. This needs to be repeated and repeated till people know what it's about: "Downing Street MINUTES" of that MEETING!

[Generator]

19. I wish someone somewhere would point out

that the reason this meeting's minutes are so crucial is because of TRUST. How can we ever trust this President again in matters of defense when he cooked the books, lied about it and then next it's oh look-Iran is going to bomb us anyday-we can't trust that-no more pre-emptive wars, no more neo-con fantasy world.

It's a matter of betrayed trust over the most crucial thing. Keeping America safe..it's the future that matters..and that's the way it should be put out.

[AuntiBush]

26. And lives... sadly so.

Not to mention our country's honor. Good point Generator.

And I did email all 3 networks last night about the "Downing Street Minutes."

Beginning a snail-mail campaign, too.

[LeahD]

27. Kerry is speaking out.

This is from the SouthCoast Today article that is linked in the "Kerry Assails Bush on Iraq" thread...LBN. Kerry is speaking about the Downing Street Memo in this snippet, and the last two sentences are music to my ears. Someone in his camp is definitely paying attention to the blogs!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1516892

"When I go back (to Washington) on Monday, I am going to raise the issue," he said of the memo, which has not been disputed by either the British or American governments. "I think it's a stunning, unbelievably simple and understandable statement of the truth and a profoundly important document that raises stunning issues here at home. And it's amazing to me the way it escaped major media discussion. It's not being missed on the Internet, I can tell you that."

[Dr Fate]

28. Kerry is smart- he is first "Big Gun" to come out on this.

Thanks JFK!!!

[Vyan]

33. This mention isn't impressive...

It's only a single paragraph in the middle of their "blogosphere" section. It's not like they're treating it like a real story.

Vyan
http://vyan.blogspot.com

[Jo March]

35. I agree BUT it is a start

A trickle can turn into a flood that brings down the entire dam.

There may be readers of their blog who haven't heard about the memo. They read about it and ask, "What are they talking about?" They do some research and viola! One more person has been educated.

It takes time. Today it's a mention in a blog. Tomorrow it's on the website. Two days from now it's mentioned on the news.

I'm hoping that Kerry brings it up on Monday.

[Fleshdancer]

37. It's actually kind of fun to see it bubble to the surface like this...

especially when so many people seem to be trying so hard to ignore the story.

[formercia]

38. Time to go back to the top