THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012
There’s only a few days left: We know. We said we’d preview our upcoming Chapter 7 over at our companion site, How He Got There.
We may do so in the next few days. For today, we’ll again suggest that you read our recently-posted Chapter 6. In it, we describe the way the press corps turned Candidate Gore into a LIAR in December 1999.
They did this through an endless succession of misquotations and other misstatements and burlesques. From that point on, the theme never died. And this is the way George Bush reached the White House. This is how you got to Iraq.
Our suggestion: As you read that appalling chapter, ask yourself how this could have happened. The misquotations went on and on. We were writing about it in real time—and we were sending weekly mailers to about a hundred journalists.
We even e-mailed Howard Kurtz about one of the more clownish manifestations—about the way the Washington Times began using the main misquotation six days in, apparently as a matter of choice.
No luck!
How is it that none of these people stood to protest while these misquotations flourished, driven along by major scribes on our biggest news programs? (By Brian, by Tim, by Chris?) How on earth could that have happened? Also this: How is it that no one wants to discuss these events right to this present day?
All your heroes know about it—and everyone knows that it can’t be discussed! This is a truly remarkable story. As you read Chapter 6, ask yourself this basic question: How could this have happened?
We want to record the full story for future generations—for American citizens who won’t be burdened by the current group of fixers. If you want to support that effort, you’ve made the right call!
Go ahead! Read Chapter 6—we dare you! And why not just click here.
You have to ask what other situations like this have occurred since Bush's election. What unacknowledged situation is occurring now?
ReplyDeleteI think the attacks on Hilary Clinton and the media agenda to put Obama in the White House is very similar to the script about Gore that was perpetrated by the media establishment. Today no one is willing to talk about how that happened and the history of the campaign is being quickly buried, just as happened with Gore's election campaign.
What is happening today? Why is no one talking about the Occupy movement's activities? Why is there no discussion of the civil rights violations that Glenn Greenwood is solely concerned with? Where is any debate about climate change? Why is the financial news about Wall Street so invisible in our press? Why are there so few articles about the situation for unemployed people and those struggling to stay above water in the middle class? It isn't only poor children who are neglected by the media.
I agree that Gore's campaign should not be forgotten but I think there is even greater value in pointing out what is missing from today's discourse.
Please just post once. We get it the first time.
DeleteSorry -- I didn't do it on purpose.
DeleteYou have to ask what other situations like this have occurred since Bush's election. What unacknowledged situation is occurring now?
ReplyDeleteI think the attacks on Hilary Clinton and the media agenda to put Obama in the White House is very similar to the script about Gore that was perpetrated by the media establishment. Today no one is willing to talk about how that happened and the history of the campaign is being quickly buried, just as happened with Gore's election campaign.
What is happening today? Why is no one talking about the Occupy movement's activities? Why is there no discussion of the civil rights violations that Glenn Greenwood is solely concerned with? Where is any debate about climate change? Why is the financial news about Wall Street so invisible in our press? Why are there so few articles about the situation for unemployed people and those struggling to stay above water in the middle class? It isn't only poor children who are neglected by the media.
I agree that Gore's campaign should not be forgotten but I think there is even greater value in pointing out what is missing from today's discourse.
You have to ask what other situations like this have occurred since Bush's election. What unacknowledged situation is occurring now?
ReplyDeleteI think the attacks on Hilary Clinton and the media agenda to put Obama in the White House is very similar to the script about Gore that was perpetrated by the media establishment. Today no one is willing to talk about how that happened and the history of the campaign is being quickly buried, just as happened with Gore's election campaign.
What is happening today? Why is no one talking about the Occupy movement's activities? Why is there no discussion of the civil rights violations that Glenn Greenwood is solely concerned with? Where is any debate about climate change? Why is the financial news about Wall Street so invisible in our press? Why are there so few articles about the situation for unemployed people and those struggling to stay above water in the middle class? It isn't only poor children who are neglected by the media.
I agree that Gore's campaign should not be forgotten but I think there is even greater value in pointing out what is missing from today's discourse.
I'm not surprised, based on your previous history, that the PREVIEW for chapter 7 is available when you said it would be, let alone the chapter itself.
ReplyDeleteI wonder who will finish first, Robert Caro and his excellent LBJ biography or you. I'm betting on Robert Caro!
Alan Snipes AGAIN tells us he thinks Bob Somerby is too slow in publishing his book, unpaid.
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Ed Schultz has covered the Wisconsin municipal employees union story since day one, starting one year ago.
ReplyDeleteKeith Olbermann on Current TV has been devoting a lot of time to OWS, more than anyone else. (When he's on the air, that is.)
The MSM is far more concerned with Romney's flip-flops and lack of charisma, Gingrich's second wife, and Santorum's sweater vests and other Very Serious Issues of Vital Concern to All Thinking Americans.
This has left little time to cover grass-roots movements. Movements that are only exciting when cops are beating and gassing demonstrators. Movements that could well be be game-changers in November.