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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy Isn't The Media Reporting On Justice Robert's Wife's Ethics Issues?
The Times is and has assigned a second reporter to the court who says they have no ides what's coming to them. Apparently Mrs. Roberts has been raking in millions.
At the Supreme Court, Ethics Questions Over a Spouses Business Ties
The chief justices wife, Jane Sullivan Roberts, has made millions in her career recruiting lawyers to prominent law firms, some of which have business before the court. Now, a letter sent to Congress claims that may present a conflict of interest.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/john-roberts-jane-sullivan-roberts.html
Topline
The wife of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is facing scrutiny for potential conflict of interests after a former colleague warned the Justice Department and Congress about her role as a recruiter for law firms, the New York Times reports, the latest ethical issue to face the court after Justice Clarence Thomas wife already came under fire for potential conflicts.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/01/31/chief-justice-roberts-wife-is-latest-supreme-court-spouse-to-spark-ethics-concerns/?sh=432da59e5bb8
There is also this
A year after Amy Coney Barrett joined the Supreme Court, the boutique Indiana firm SouthBank Legal opened its first-ever Washington office in Penn Quarter, a move the firm hailed in a 2021 press release as an important milestone.
But if anyone wants to find out whether Jesse Barretts clients have a direct interest in cases being decided by his wife, theyre out of luck. In the Supreme Courts notoriously porous ethical disclosure system, Barrett not only withholds her husbands clients, but redacted the name of SouthBank Legal itself in her most recent disclosure.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/29/justices-spouses-conflict-of-interest-disclosures-00059549
Irish_Dem
(47,128 posts)republianmushroom
(13,614 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,909 posts)The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of . It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind. Edward L. Bernays, Propaganda, published 1928.
Heres the history. First, details and a GOP legal memo from a guy Nixon later tapped for SCOTUS:
The Lewis Powell Memo: A Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy
Additional important history to know...
Alex Carey: Corporations and Propaganda
The Attack on Democracy
The 20th century, said Carey, is marked by three historic developments: the growth of democracy via the expansion of the franchise, the growth of corporations, and the growth of propaganda to protect corporations from democracy. Carey wrote that the people of the US have been subjected to an unparalleled, expensive, 3/4 century long propaganda effort designed to expand corporate rights by undermining democracy and destroying the unions. And, in his manuscript, unpublished during his life time, he described that history, going back to World War I and ending with the Reagan era. Carey covers the little known role of the US Chamber of Commerce in the McCarthy witch hunts of post WWII and shows how the continued campaign against "Big Government" plays an important role in bringing Reagan to power.
John Pilger called Carey "a second Orwell", Noam Chomsky dedicated his book, Manufacturing Consent, to him. And even though TUC Radio runs our documentary based on Carey's manuscript at least every two years and draws a huge response each time, Alex Carey is still unknown.
Given today's spotlight on corporations that may change. It is not only the Occupy movement that inspired me to present this program again at this time. By an amazing historic coincidence Bill Moyers and Charlie Cray of Greenpeace have just added the missing chapter to Carey's analysis. Carey's manuscript ends in 1988 when he committed suicide. Moyers and Cray begin with 1971 and bring the corporate propaganda project up to date.
This is a fairly complex production with many voices, historic sound clips, and source material. The program has been used by writers and students of history and propaganda. Alex Carey: Taking the Risk out of Democracy, Corporate Propaganda VS Freedom and Liberty with a foreword by Noam Chomsky was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1995.
Source: TUC Radio
Part 1: https://tucradio.org/podcasts/newest-podcasts/alex-carey-corporations-and-propaganda-part-one-of-two/
Part 2: https://tucradio.org/podcasts/newest-podcasts/alex-carey-corporations-and-propaganda-part-two-of-two/
Heres what political reporters care about, and its not you
By Dan Froomkin
Press watchers.org - November 17, 2022
Its a mystery to a lot of folks how political reporters who seem so smart and accomplished consistently get the big things wrong.
The reason is that political reporters are human beings. Human beings respond to incentives. And in the case of the elite Washington press corps, those incentives are skewed.
These reporters respond to four core constituencies: Their editors, their sources, their peers, and right-wing trolls.
SNIP
Your Editors
You will never get scolded by your editors for talking trash about Democrats. That proves your independence. By contrast, if you express an even slightly negative common-sense view about the Republican Party, that is liberal editorializing that sets off alarms throughout the newsrooms glass offices. You get rewarded for scoops incremental tidbits of no lasting significance not edification. Your safest place is always in the middle, pointing fingers at both sides. You are rewarded for unflappability, and looking like you care too much about something is the quickest way to lose your job.
Your Sources
If your sources dont return your calls, your editors will find someone else to do your job. Democrats will never cut you off, no matter what you write. Democratic operatives will even admire how you play the game. Republicans will cut you off if they conclude youre biased against them. As long as you dont stray from the conventional wisdom, youll be OK.
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https://presswatchers.org/2022/11/heres-what-political-reporters-care-about-and-its-not-you/
When Plausible Deniability infected the news room.
THE CIA AND THE MEDIA
How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up
BY CARL BERNSTEIN
Rolling Stone, October 20, 1977
In 1953, Joseph Alsop, then one of Americas leading syndicated columnists, went to the Philippines to cover an election. He did not go because he was asked to do so by his syndicate. He did not go because he was asked to do so by the newspapers that printed his column. He went at the request of the CIA.
Alsop is one of more than 400 American journalists who in the past twenty‑five years have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency, according to documents on file at CIA headquarters. Some of these journalists relationships with the Agency were tacit; some were explicit. There was cooperation, accommodation and overlap. Journalists provided a full range of clandestine servicesfrom simple intelligence gathering to serving as go‑betweens with spies in Communist countries. Reporters shared their notebooks with the CIA. Editors shared their staffs. Some of the journalists were Pulitzer Prize winners, distinguished reporters who considered themselves ambassadors without‑portfolio for their country. Most were less exalted: foreign correspondents who found that their association with the Agency helped their work; stringers and freelancers who were as interested in the derring‑do of the spy business as in filing articles; and, the smallest category, full‑time CIA employees masquerading as journalists abroad. In many instances, CIA documents show, journalists were engaged to perform tasks for the CIA with the consent of the managements of Americas leading news organizations.
The history of the CIAs involvement with the American press continues to be shrouded by an official policy of obfuscation and deception for the following principal reasons:
■ The use of journalists has been among the most productive means of intelligence‑gathering employed by the CIA. Although the Agency has cut back sharply on the use of reporters since 1973 primarily as a result of pressure from the media), some journalist‑operatives are still posted abroad.
■ Further investigation into the matter, CIA officials say, would inevitably reveal a series of embarrassing relationships in the 1950s and 1960s with some of the most powerful organizations and individuals in American journalism.
Among the executives who lent their cooperation to the Agency were Williarn Paley of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Henry Luce of Time Inc., Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times, Barry Bingham Sr. of the Louisville Courier‑Journal, and James Copley of the Copley News Service. Other organizations which cooperated with the CIA include the American Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting Company, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps‑Howard, Newsweek magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting System, the Miami Herald and the old Saturday Evening Post and New York Herald‑Tribune.
By far the most valuable of these associations, according to CIA officials, have been with the New York Times, CBS and Time Inc.
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https://www.carlbernstein.com/the-cia-and-the-media-rolling-stone-10-20-1977
The Right has been at war with Democracy in the USA since FDR introduced the New Deal. They have been defeated many times, but not destroyed. Why? You can kill a man, but you cant kill an idea, like democracy.
RANDYWILDMAN
(2,672 posts)Suck it Roberts, ya dirtbag
brooklynite
(94,592 posts)
and then cite the media reporting something?
Are you complaining about cable news? A specific media outlet? Who
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IbogaProject
(2,816 posts)Here is the times article for educational and research use. https://archive.is/8YgaE
Ocelot II
(115,732 posts)Kaleva
(36,307 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)Haven't seen many about this and it should be a very big story
UTUSN
(70,706 posts)Thanks for the topic that needs attention. Perhaps the naysayers would have preferred a rephrasing of the title.
Samrob
(4,298 posts)maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)The sarcasm isn't clear.