How liberal IS the media? When does the press really fight for the truth? The answers, from someone who has been deep inside mainstream media – are “not” and “rarely”. His latest article, “The NYT’s Favor and Fear” – gives just one glaring example.
Tonight, Mike and Mark speak with Robert Parry about this and much much more. A conversation that covers deep history right up to the present – and gives a sobering look into how politics reaches deeper than just electioneering and rhetoric – but into the intelligence community itself.
About the guest:
Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. His latest book, Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush, was written with two of his sons, Sam and Nat, and can be ordered at neckdeepbook.com.
His two previous books, Secrecy & Privilege: The Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq and Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & ‘Project Truth’ are also available there.
His investigative journalism website, consortiumnews.com, is an incredibly important resource. Please visit the site, and support them any way you can.
The Consortium News stories we cover tonight:
From the archives: Interview with Judge Lawrence Walsh (mp3)
Consortium news is the best writings of America’s problems today and how little’s being done to correct anything but the narrative in the media..
The story of how far republicans will go to wreck the democratic administration is ringing so true now a days with the debt ceiling business…
I’ve thought about the soviet union also having financial trouble when they were fighting the same folks we’re fighting now–coincidence?—or is this some type of formula being used by the shadows who know history and what it takes to bring down the beast empire?
The stakes are very high–our kids are in harms way and we got idiots ready to destroy US influence in the world if Obama don’t fly right—and cave—destroying his base in the process–what a world..
Very good show–need more like them