October 05, 2005
CBS - The castro Broadcasting System
It's no secret that CBS News and 60 Minutes especially have had their share of controvercies regarding their journalistic responsiblilities and integrity.
A. M. Mora y Leon posted about CBS's use of castro personnel for this past Sunday's segment on Elian Gonzalez. Last year, in the run up to the election, there was Rathergate, the story broken by the blogosphere after noticing the use of fake documents to discredit President Bush and the cause of Dan "I Love fidel" Rather's rather abrupt retirement. No one will ever really know what and how many liberties CBS, and by default their MSM brethren, have taken with truth in journalism and not been caught red handed. (Pun deliciously indented.) Who knows how long it's been going on.
Apparently, the manipulation of data, witnesses and interviewees is commonplace in the MSM. Old hat as they say. And through this manipulation, the MSM controls not only public opinion, but policy. Here's a short video produced by filmmaker Agustin Blazquez, (producer of various Cuba related documentaries including "The Rats Below") with a first hand account of the practices of Dan Rather and 60 Minutes, etal:
I must warn you though, viewing the following will take COURAGE!(Please be patient, long download.)
To download the video, click here.
Posted by Val Prieto at October 5, 2005 03:59 PM
Comments
Wow, Val! I'm going to watch that with a lot of interest!!!
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at October 5, 2005 06:16 PM
"Quiet, numbskulls, I'm broadcasting!" Moe Howard to Larry and Curly at CBS.
Posted by: delacova at October 5, 2005 07:41 PM
We should send this link to someone in the Herald...Lets see if someone there has the balls to research and print this.
Posted by: Laz at October 5, 2005 08:33 PM
Comment deleted by admin. Either stay on topic or I will delete the comment. Any more comments of this nature, bbustard, and I will ban you.
Posted by: bbbustard at October 5, 2005 08:44 PM
Wow, wow, wow, it's as bad as we imagined. Ditto what Laz said.
Posted by: Kathleen at October 6, 2005 12:28 AM
CBS = Castro Broadcasting System - BRILLIANT!
Now let me reach for me Guinness before I watch the broadcast - ease the pain and all that sort of thing...
Posted by: Alberto Quiroga at October 6, 2005 06:57 AM
Dedicated to those who doubt that communists and islamists can form alliances:
Chavez praises Khomeinist revolution and sees similarities to Islamic and Bolivarian "revolutions"
Posted by: Stefania at October 6, 2005 08:34 AM
What a cluster f**k the Elian Gonzales thing was with the troll of an AG telling us about the law... feh.
This was a sad day for the United States and the people of Cuba.
Glad to hear (well, sort of) that someone in the know had the guts to speak out; albet too little and too late.
Posted by: babs at October 6, 2005 11:20 AM
I bought the DVD. Very good and important information.
But the quality and production of the film is
atrocious.
The people that really need to see this would criticize it
for all the wrong reasons.
Nevertheless, it is very useful information that answered some troubling questions for me regarding the whole Elian case.
Posted by: Manny Rodriguez at October 8, 2005 06:58 PM