Re: The Sad Decline of '60 Minutes' Continues With This Week's NSA Whitewash

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

Welcome to the world of centralized media,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_media. You have to read non-US
publications to balance the skewed views following the party lines.
Reuters is a good choice.

I still recall Reuters was one of the few mainstream publications that
covered the Israel/Palestine conflict/war/{euphemism} with
objectivity. Reuters would publish daily death counts like a score
card. At the height, Israel was killing Palestinians at a rate of 3 to
1.

On the other hand, US central media usually showed the suicide bus
bombers that killed Israelis. They did not cover Israel razing entire
portions of cities and killing hundreds at a time with airstrikes. I
recall seeing the aerial photos of cities like Jenin and thinking,
holy shit - that looks like post world war two Germany.

Jeff


On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Paul Ferguson
<fergdawgster () mykolab com> wrote:
> Wow, where to begin...
>
> I love the subject line above, which I used from this 'The Nation' article:
>
> http://www.thenation.com/blog/177598/sad-decline-60-minutes-continues-weeks-nsa-whitewash
>
> I was unsurprisingly stunned tonight that CBS had sunk even lower than Fox
> News in their reporting on the NSA tonight -- nothing less than pro-NSA
> propaganda.
>
> Here are a few initial thoughts that came out tonight -- and they will
> assuredly continue to roll in:
>
> 'How we know the 60 Minutes NSA interview was crap'
> http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/12/how-we-know-60-minutes-nsa-interview.html
>
> '60 Minutes': NSA Good, Snowden Bad
> http://www.thewire.com/national/2013/12/60-minutes-nsa-good-snowden-bad/356174/
>
> 'Shame On Feinstein' Coalition Warns Of Silicon Valley Economic Impact From
> NSA Spying
> http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2013/12/shame_on_feinstein_co.php
>
> One can only scratch their heads & wonder what CBS is doing here. Are they
> really this incompetent, or are they maneuvering somehow to support the
> Obama administration's attempt to only make 'cosmetic changes' to the NSA
> and FISA Court operations, and whitewash the NSA overreach?
>
> I've already seen several main stream U.S. news organizations 'interpret'
> the leaked recommendations from the 'oversight board' as 'sweeping' when
> they are nothing more than cosmetic & business as usual.
>
> See also:
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/13/nsa-review-to-leave-spying-programs-largely-unchanged-reports-say
>
> http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/16/131216fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=all
>
> http://www.pogo.org/blog/2013/12/20131213-has-political-spending-defanged-intel-watchdogs-in-congress.html
>
>
> No pun intended, but the NSA and the Obama Administration are pulling a
> "Snow Job" on the American People.
>
> - ferg
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