nytimes.com - 11/30/2008
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Barry R. McCaffrey, a retired four-star Army general, has quietly flourished at the intersection of network news and wartime commerce. >
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Matthew Yglesias —
... Today he has a followup story focusing in tightly on one particular ex-general, Barry McCaffrey. The headline: “One Man’s Military-Industrial Complex”. Spencer Ackerman ...
Breaking: NBC Lacks Journalistic Integrity
TalkLeft —
... for pointing to the latest NYTimes article that demonstrates that NBC and its empty headed, blow dried anchor Brian Williams have not a shred of integrity. See their posts and the Times articles for the details. But this is the bottom line about NBC specifically and the Media in general, from Yglesias: ...
Cirque de Military Analysts ... Pulitzer Prize Winner!
The Reaction —
... The New York Times' David Barstow won a richly deserved Pulitzer Prize yesterday for two articles that, despite being featured as major news stories on the front page of The Paper of Record, were completely suppressed by virtually every network and cable news show, which to this day have never informed their viewers about what Barstow uncovered. Here is how the Pulitzer Committee described Barstow's exposés: ...
GE's silencing of Olbermann and MSNBC's sleazy use of Richard Wolffe
The Political Carnival —
... These dual stories of GE/Olbermann and Wolffe reveal what NBC and MSNBC really are about as vividly as anything since the "military analyst" ...
GE's Silencing of Olbermann and MSNBC's Sleazy Use of Richard Wolffe
Commondreams.org Views —
... many ways, Wolffe's sleaze and corporate whoredom are the perfect face for this network. These dual stories of GE/Olbermann and Wolffe reveal what NBC and MSNBC really are about as vividly as anything since the "military analyst" scandal. Remember that indescribably informative NBC News/MSNBC scandal: when it was revealed that both news outlets (along with most other major television outlets) were presenting as "independent military analysts" a whole slew of former Generals with substantial, undisclosed corporate interests in the policies they were promoting and doing so ...
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