Sam Donaldson finally figures out what we all knew in 1991

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[Zepps_News] Sam Donaldson finally figures out what we all

knew in 1991

 

 

Major media in the US has been a source for propaganda for many years

(longer than since 1991 as noted above) but the degree of which is

mainly spin and propaganda has slowly but steadily been increasing

each year till now it is virtually worthless as a source with any

veracity)

 

 

 

 

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Donaldson: Network News Dead

 

By Bill McConnell -- Broadcasting & Cable, 4/19/2005 3:06:00 PM

 

Former ABC News reporter/anchor Sam Donaldson is ready to say the last

rites for network news because it will soon lose its dominant position

as Americans' primary source of news. " I think it's dead. Sorry, " he

said during a breakfast panel Tuesday at the National Association of

Broadcasters' convention in Las Vegas. " The monster anchors are through. "

 

Even though 30 million viewers still turn to networks news each night

and garner ratings well above CNN and Fox News, networks news operations

long ago lost their role as the sources Americans rely on during time of

major breaking news, said Donaldson

 

" God forbid, if someone shot the President, which network would you turn

to? It will be cable, the Internet--something other than General

Hospital being interrupted. "

 

Increasingly, viewers will continue turning to alternative sources for

everyday news as well, he said.

 

Donaldson was joined on the panel by CNN political analyst Jeff

Greenfield and CBS Sunday Morning's Charles Osgood., both of whom were

less pessimistic about network news' future.

 

" If it's dying, it's dying a very slow death, " Greenfield said.

Although the network news monopoly was " smashed " by cable, broadcast

news will redefine itself, thought he didn't yet know how.

 

Osgood said the network news can remain competitive with other platforms

but must be constantly reevaluated to remain competitive--a fact that

makes him glad he's at the tail end of his career rather than the

beginning. " It used to be when we wanted to make a show more appealing

to more people, the first thing we did was design a new set. "

 

During their talk the three reporters came out in favor of a federal

shield law that would allow journalists to protect the identity of their

sources without threat of jail.

 

Donaldson, however, said journalists shouldn't have blanket protection

when lives are at stake, but didn't know how to draft a law that would

balance the need to ensure that journalists can protect whistle blowers

but won't impede legal investigations.

 

The three also agreed that that Internet bloggers have had a generally

positive impact on news because mainstream reporters are forced to

better verify their information and pare opinions out of their work or

face he wrath of scrutinizing critics.

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Election 2004

The Triumph of the Swill

" The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost

duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation.

It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our

nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation

of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national

life. "

Adolph Hitler, My New World Order,

Proclamation to the German Nation

at Berlin, February 1, 1933

 

 

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