The American Media Misdiagnosis By Robert Parry

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-American-Media-Misdiag-by-Robert-Parry-090302-933.html




....At the New York Times, neoconservative executive editor Abe Rosenthal talked about moving his newspaper "back to the center," by which he meant to the right. Washington Post chairwoman Katharine Graham also was uncomfortable with the adversarial position of her newspaper and sidled up to President Ronald Reagan when he came to power in 1981.

When I was hired at Washington Post-owned Newsweek in 1987--supposedly to pursue the Iran-Contra scandal that I had helped expose while at the Associated Press--I was surprised to find senior Newsweek executives fretting about the possibility that Iran-Contra could become another Watergate.

The very company (the Washington Post), which was credited with blowing the whistle on Nixon's Watergate crimes, seemed not to want "another Watergate," in part because it might damage the generally friendly dinner-party relationships that had developed with the Reagan insiders, which in turn might upset Mrs. Graham.

I ran into this corporate reality when I pressed ahead with an investigation showing that the Iran-Contra scandal was not a rogue operation run by White House aide Oliver North and a few men of zeal--but rather was authorized and directed by President Reagan and Vice President George H.W. Bush with the active support of the CIA.....

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1. LOL. You mean the MSM are not on the side of us little people?

Not fighting to revive the republic and constitutional government?

The truth is they had better watch their ass, they can be part of the problem or part of the solution, and it will make a difference which of those they choose.