Why You Hear Little About It In the Mainstream Press

“The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.”
William Colby former Director of the CIA
Third World Traveler

"Search crews on Monday combed the muddy waters of the Wicomico River, and helicopters scoured the area in a search for former CIA director William Colby, presumed drowned in a weekend boating accident. The search was called off for the night late Monday.... He was dismissed by Ford because of a growing feeling in the White House that he was cooperating too freely with congressional investigators looking into allegations of CIA wrongdoing."
Hunt for former CIA director continues
CNN, 29 April 1996

"The first worldwide index of press freedom has some surprises for Western democracies. The United States ranks below Costa Rica ...."
Reporters Without Borders is publishing the first worldwide press freedom index
Reporters Without Borders, 23 October 2002

"One of our best-kept secrets is the degree to which a handful of huge corporations control the flow of information in the United States. Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read. And the situation is likely to become much worse as a result of radical deregulation efforts by the Bush administration and some horrendous court decisions.Television is the means by which most Americans get their 'news.' Without exception, every major network is owned by a huge conglomerate that has enormous conflicts of interest. Fox News Channel is owned by Rupert Murdoch, a right-wing Australian who already owns a significant portion of the world’s media. His network has close ties to the Republican Party, and among his “fair and balanced” commentators is Newt Gingrich. NBC is owned by General Electric, one of the largest corporations in the world — and one with a long history of anti-union activity. GE, a major contributor to the Republican Party, has substantial financial interests in weapons manufacturing.... The bottom line is that fewer and fewer huge conglomerates are controlling virtually everything that the ordinary American sees, hears and reads. This is an issue that Congress can no longer ignore."
US Rep Bernie Sanders
Congress Can No Longer Ignore Corporate Control of the Media
'The Hill', 12 June 2002

"Where are the moderating voices, the views of those who stand against the momentum of war, who challenge the self-serving rationalizations of empire? You are unlikely to find them in the major media. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is headed by Bob Coonrad, formerly deputy managing director of the U.S. propaganda station Voice of America. At the helm of National Public Radio is Kevin Klose, formerly director of the International Broadcasting Bureau, which oversees Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, and Radio and Television Marti. The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is Michael Powell, son of the secretary of state. Secretary of State Colin Powell was on the corporate board of America Online, now merged with Time-Warner, which owns CNN. A member of AOL/Time-Warner's board of directors, Carla Hills, also sits on the board of directors of Chevron. On the board of directors of Exxon-Mobil sits J. Richard Munro, former chairman and CEO of Time-Warner. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was on the board of the Tribune Company, owner of the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and many TV stations. Oil companies often share board members with the media. The director of Texaco (recently merged with Chevron), former senator Sam Nunn, is also on the board of directors of GE/NBC (GE is the nation's sixth largest defense contractor). Texaco board of directors member Charles Price sits on the New York Times/Boston Globe board of directors. Corporate board member William Steere is on the board of directors of Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal. A member of the Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal corporate board, Rand Araskog, also sits on the board of directors of Shell Oil. The connections of the current White House administration with big oil hardly need mentioning.... All of these oil companies, with important ties to the U.S. media, have interests in the Middle East crucial to their profits. Another company, Unocal, was the major player in a January 1998 agreement with the Taliban to build a natural gas pipeline across Afghanistan. (The U.S. had covertly funded the Taliban to bring stability for the pipeline deal.) In December 1998, they put the project on hold 'until an internationally recognized government was in place.' Unocal runs its own political action committee and is a major donor to the Republican Party. They spend about $1.5 million every year for lobbying... One of the Mujahedin's leaders, Hamed Karzai, was the main intermediary between the Mujahedin and the CIA. He later became a top advisor to Unocal and after the ending of Taliban rule in Afghanistan was installed as prime minister. Henry Kissinger also works for Unocal. Secretary of the Air Force under the elder George Bush, Donald Rice, is on Unocal's board of directors. (Rice is also a former president of the military think tank RAND.) Another board member is Charles Larson, former commander-in-chief of the U.S. Navy's pacific command."
THE WELL OILED MEDIA
rosenlake-er web site

"Speaking to British journalist Robert Fisk in 1996 Afghanistan, bin Laden made clear his agenda. 'When the American troops entered Saudia Arabia [after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait], the land of the two holy places [Mecca and Medina], there was strong protest from the ulema [religious authorities] and from students of the Shariah law all over the country against the interference of American troops,' bin Laden told Fisk, who published the comments in The Nation in 1998. The Saudi leaders made a 'big mistake', bin Laden said, when they responded by suppressing the protests and cementing ties to the U.S. 'After it had insulted and jailed the ulema . . . the Saudi regime lost its legitimacy,' bin Laden said. And so began his deadly fatwa against the United States...... It's the meddling in the internal affairs of the indigenous people of the [Middle East] region to ensure that said oil stays in the hands of the privileged few that has led to an enraged underground movement of terrorists in these lands. And oil is all we're there for - what else of value comes from that part of the world, what strategic value does it have otherwise? That may seem as obvious as the nose on our collective face, but it's something no one wants to acknowledge. Especially given the ties between the media and the oil companies: ABC is tied to Texaco, NBC to British Petroleum, Time Warner to Mobil Oil, as revealed in the marvelous media-watchdog flier Censored Alert in the summer of 2000. And now the oil industry is entrenched as America's No. 1 player with Bush and Cheney, two oil men (one failed, one successful) in command."
It's the Oil
Los Angeles Weekly, Cover Feature, September 21 - 27, 2001

"Dan Rather, the star news anchor for the US television network CBS, said last night that 'patriotism run amok' was in danger of trampling the freedom of American journalists to ask tough questions..... in an interview with BBC's Newsnight, he graphically described the pressures to conform that built up after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. .... And he admitted that he had shrunk from taking on the Bush administration over the war on terrorism.....'Limiting access, limiting information to cover the backsides of those who are in charge of the war, is extremely dangerous and cannot and should not be accepted. And I am sorry to say that, up to and including the moment of this interview, that overwhelmingly it has been accepted by the American people. And the current administration revels in that, they relish that, and they take refuge in that..... It's unpatriotic not to stand up, look them in the eye, and ask the questions they don't want to hear - they being those who have the responsibility, the ultimate responsibility - of sending our sons and daughters, our husbands, wives, our blood, to face death.' "
US Media Cowed by Patriotic Fever, Says CBS Star
London Guardian, 17 May 2002

"The same issues that were placed before the German people in 1933 are now before us, and our grandchildren may one day implore us to explain our silence in the face of a vicious tyranny. It will do you no good to plead the statist’s claim that the current totalitarian structures and unilateral war against the entire world were occasioned by events of September 11^th. Just as Adolf Hitler was able to convert the burning of the Reichstag into the raison d’etre for his military campaigns and domestic police-state, George Bush has been exploiting the World Trade Center attacks to advance a political agenda that goes far beyond the brutalities of early September..... There is scarcely a pip being squeaked anywhere in the major media over any of this.... Our experience with Nazi holocaust films may cause us to shake our heads in disbelief over such revelations [in Germany] – after all, Nazism has come to symbolize as heinous a form of tyranny as we can imagine. But how different is our mindset from that of the Germans who, in 1933, watched as their police state was rapidly put into place and who, fifteen years later, could not imagine that anything untoward had taken place? "
When Didn’t They Know It, and What About You?
Butler Shaffer, Southwestern University School of Law, 13 June 2002

"On April 15, former Carter administration staffer Gary Sick gave added weight to the 'October Surprise' theory -- the allegations that officials in the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign cut a deal with Iranian revolutionaries to delay the release of the fifty-two hostages until after Reagan's inauguration -- with a 2,000-word op-ed piece in The New York Times.... The day Sick's piece appeared in the times, listing dates and participants in suspected meetings between campaign staffers and Iranian clerics, none of the network evening newscasts even mentioned the story... there were a number of newsworthy developments... [including] the State Department considered blocking a visa for former Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, who came to the U.S. to promote his book My Turn To Speak, in which he asserts that the Reagan campaign cut a deal with the Iranians at the height of the hostage crisis; President Bush made his first public denials of the allegations; and eight of the former hostages voiced suspicions about the circumstances surrounding their release. But many of these developments, which were reported by the wire services and picked up by alternative papers and even by the Phil Donahue show, were missed altogether by the major media. And a story that could make Deep Throat look shallow has yet to make the cover of Time or Newsweek. When the story does appear, the key questions not only go unanswered, they go unasked. "
WHO WILL UNWRAP THE OCTOBER SURPRISE?
Columbia Journalism Review, Sept/Oct 1991

"McClendon is the true dean of the Washington press corps....she cranks out a weekly syndicated newspaper column, a biweekly newsletter, and a weekly radio commentary that airs on 1,200 stations across the nation. McClendon still doesn't miss a day in the White House press room.... [In our interview she said] 'The sad thing about the United States today is the American people are informed only on a few issues. They don't know anything about welfare. They don't know that we're selling arms to every country in the world. The public has no idea about what's going on. McClendon decried the sorry state of journalism, slammed Clinton's press operation, and reflected on a half-century of covering politics. It's the press. They stick together and circle around one subject. You go to a press conference at the White House and there'll be 55 questions. All but one or two will be on the same subject. I think you have to blame government, too. Government has loads of money to spend every week--billions on public affairs and public information--and they don't tell the public anything. It's mostly devoted to enlarging upon the boss, to making him look great and big. They don't tell the public how they are really spending money..'"
Sarah McClendon, longest serving White House correspondent
Mother Jones, May/June 1996

Ingredients of the US 2000/2001 'Two Bite' Coup Click here for whole coup story in one web page (large file) or use individual menu links below to view elements (recommended)
1.Why You Hear Little About It In The Mainstream Press	8. Who's Really Running Post-Coup America?
2. What Are These People Capable Of? - 'Bite No 1' - Coup 2000	9. Behind The scenes - The Baker-Bush Snr effect
3. Why Was A Second Bite At The Coup Necessary?	10. The 911 Coup Smokescreen
4. Forewarned Is Forearmed For 'Bite No 2' - Coup 2001	11. Accommodating 'The Future' With John Ashcroft
5. Bite No 2 - Cementing The coup With the 911 opportunity	12. Only Pretend Friends Left Now For The US
6. Election Defeat Cover-Up Not The Only Reason - A, B, C, D, E	13.Ground Prepared Back In The Reagan-Bush Era - The Iran Hostages Fix
7. Lies and Coups - 'Nothing New'	14. 911 Converts Coup Into Putsch
Time for a Genuinely Open Public Inquiry into 911 - click here 1991 - 2002: TIMELINE SURROUNDING SEPTEMBER 11TH - IF CIA AND THE GOVERNMENT WEREN'T INVOLVED IN THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS WHAT WERE THEY DOING?

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