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"I think it's a very legitimate allegation," said CBS News' Katie Couric. "I think it's one of the most embarrassing chapters in American journalism.
"And I think there was a sense of pressure from corporations who own where we work and from the government itself to really squash any kind of dissent or any kind of questioning of it," Couric added. "I think it was extremely subtle but very, very effective."
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Couric Critiques Iraq War Run-Up Coverage, CBS News Anchor Calls White House Press Corps Performance "Embarrassing" - CBS News
News anchors who questioned the Iraq war were told by the government if they didn't stop, they would get no access to the war.
The corporations who own the news didn't want that to happen, so they prevented their journalists from questioning the false intelligence and propaganda that the Bush administration was putting forth.
We were censored by the government. Free speech was silenced to make war.
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Williams agreed that the White House put tremendous pressure on news organizations to hew to the scripted administration line. “I was in Kuwait for the buildup to the war, and, yes, we heard from the Pentagon, on my cell phone, the minute they heard us report something that they didn’t like. The tone of that time was quite extraordinary.”
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Couric remembered similar pressure: “I remember doing an interview and the press secretary called our executive producer and said, ‘We didn’t like the tone of that interview.’ And we said, ‘Well, tough. We had to ask some of these questions.’ And they said, ‘If you keep it up, we’re gonna block access to you during the war.’ ”
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News anchors differ on war coverage - TODAY: People - MSNBC.com
What a disgusting display of American journalism.
05-29-2008, 03:53 PM
Network anchors say Government squashed questioning of war
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