How did WH keep so MANY press stories suppressed? Tapped reporters

[blm]

all over the country, especially the KnightRidder reporters at the DC bureau who were coming up with all the inside CIA material that BushInc was cooking the intel books on Iraq. Count on it.

That is how they were also able to send Goss into the CIA to do all the purging they wanted done.

[salin]

1. think: that odd comment about Christine Amapour made several months

ago on one of the cable news shows.

[rodeodance]

3. i only vaguely recall that and do remember what she said. Can you

fill in please? Thanks in advance.

[TomInTib]

4. It was Andrea Mitchell who asked the question.

She asked James Risen.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/007365.php

[salin]

7. the question left lingering afterwards... was why did she even have

an inkling that this might be the case.... suggests that the buzz around DC among the glitterati press might have included such a suspicion (eg being spied on.)

[blm]

15. Plus her husband worked with both Clark and Kerry in 2003 - 2004.

A twofer for NSA.

[Drum]

9. I can only recall the bare bones, but

I remember seeing a replay of a dispatch CA was making from the field, overseas, and she mentioned CNN reporters having, I think, phones tapped. Naturally, the story sank quickly and quietly among the mainstream media, and most-appallingly so by her very network. How I long for the old days of CNN.
Sorry I cannot really recall more than this about the episode.
The OP and response #1 make sense to me...if it wasn't blackmail making 'em stay quiet, then the other possible motives of the MSM are even more chilling....


(and with this, my friends, I crest the 1000 mark...I almost didn't notice.)

[Olney Blue]

11. Drum, congratulations on your 1000th post....

:toast:

[blm]

13. Story was droipped like a hot potato. CNN = House of Saud/House of Bush

and no doubt showed Amanpour her contract limitations.

[TomInTib]

5. Here is somehing on that..

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/007365.php

[salin]

8. Thanks for finding that

couldn't recall the details - but it seems more significant than ever.

[Hamlette]

16. Isn't Amapour the only reporter to all but admit the WH threatened

reporters with access...if nothing else...if the WH didn't like what they reported?

[blm]

17. I don't think that story lasted 12 hours before CNN stopped it.

So, what does that tell us? It really says the story was 100% right.

[JuniperLea]

2. Can you imagine?

You are calling in a story to your editor and you get another call... who knows what threats are made...

There is no longer any such thing as freedom of the press.

[C_U_L8R]

6. You can count on it..

the press is suppressed and controlled
through all sorts of extortion, blackmail
and coercion. So is the Republican base.
They would have fled Bush long ago
without that political noose around their necks.
It's the Heinrich Himmler playbook...
now the Karl Rove playbook.

[Gabi Hayes]

10. blm...this is just for you

no need to don tinfoil on this

just ask my 'client,' Robert Parry.

you report what the bosses at the editorial/publishing level don't want to hear, you lose your job

it's that simple

today's 'journalists' aren't weathermen, but they know which way the wind blows



....................What, me worry?

[DrDebug]

12. LMAO @ The Picture

Now I know why Bush looked so familiar. It's Archie Bunker

[blm]

14. Heheh...thanks, Gabi - sorry so late responding. I appreciate very much

that there are others who recognize the import of Parry's past work and his analysis now.