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Sensational Memos Lift the Lid on News Control
    #1779773 - 08/04/03 09:54 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

This site claims to have memos from a TV network executive that show how the news is scripted.

Click here to see the memos page


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"It seems that guerrilla warfare is a real thing. Too much looting, assaulting Iraqi women, too much Muslim-bashing. No discipline in the US forces and the commanders have a hard time in controlling their men. Protestors are to be shown to be "die-hard Baathist supporters of the evil Saddam" and show pictures of a "commando" camp with pictures of Saddam and anti-US slogans." (June 12)

Since April, The Barnes Review News web site (www.tbrnews.org) has posted memos like this from an executive at a major TV network to selected News Division staff.

If they are authentic, these memos represent the most important revelation of government deception since the Pentagon Papers, and suggest the "news" is little more than mass psychological control. There are shocking references to cover-ups of government domestic terrorism, SARS, Mad Cow, and events in Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, Iran and much more.

In mid-March TBR Webmaster Walter Storch received an email from a man who claimed to be a mid-level executive at a major U.S. TV network. He said he had "serious doubts" about the strict control of the media by the government.

He sent Storch a disc containing 1500 pages of memos dating back to 2001. All were on corporate stationery signed by the sender and recipients in the News Division.

Storch asked for current directives and was able to ascertain that they were followed both in print and on TV. He posted the memos in excerpt or in full and watched "as ordained news was created before our eyes."

"We are now printing the more outrageous and serious aspects of the incoming papers with the hopes that this will cause serious public relations problems [for] those directly involved," Storch wrote recently.

Named for "revisionist" historian Harry Elmer Barnes, TBR sees accepted history as propaganda by the winners. Presumably the TV executive thought this web site would have the courage to expose contemporary propaganda as well.

The memos so far have created a minor sensation. TBR news gets 3,000-10,000 viewers of this item per day, about half foreign. About 95% of the email response is positive while 5% are from government and press people who are "outraged by the implications. "

The memo writer is probably an executive at a media conglomerate in New York charged with coordinating with government. His directives seem to be followed by other networks and newspapers, although he refers to "unreliable" newspapers (June 2).

He decides what to suppress ("blackout"), what to promote ("puff pieces"), what angle to take on anything controversial. About SARS, which did spread to the US but was called pneumonia, he says," Get the usual medical people and give them the usual script." (May 25)

He has a cynical, conspiratorial, chatty style and makes the newsmen feel they are "in the know." They do not include the public in this charmed circle.

RECENTLY A CHANGE OF TONE

In July, the memo writer starts to distance himself from Bush policy in Iraq, which is becoming a quagmire like Vietnam. He implies that "our circle" predicted this from the start. This suggests that his master may be the Rockefeller-CIA-Mossad-CFR elite network.

For the first time, the writer urges a "completely neutral position" in case Bush goes the way of Richard Nixon. On July 12, he tells the executives to follow the example of "bellweather" New York Times. On August 1, the New York Times described Bush's performance at a recent news conference as "vague and sometimes nearly incoherent.... [he gave] rambling non answers."

On July 17, the writer says, "The White House is moving into a bunker mentality, very much like Nixon during the end of the Watergate business." The elite media may be getting ready to dump George W. Bush. Why would they report every U.S. casualty in Iraq when they have blacked out Afghanistan?

Iraq may be Bush's Watergate. He may have been tricked into invading Iraq, just as Nixon was tricked into sanctioning Watergate. The whole affair from Sept 11 to the Iraq war may be designed (like Vietnam) to bleed the U.S. taxpayer, destroy American morale and undermine the US's stature in the world.

SHOCKING REVELATIONS FROM www.TBRNEWS.ORG:

Ultimately you will make your own mind up about the authenticity of this material.

For me it reads like the script of a play I have been watching. "Play down North Korea. Black out Rachel Corrie." It's all followed. I have always been disturbed by the uncanny uniformity of the three TV network newscasts and CNN.

Go to www.tbrnews.org and click on "Controlling the News". The latest reports are at the bottom of Storch's introduction. There is a link to about 10 pages of excerpts since February. You can subscribe to a full service for $5 a month.

Here is a selection:

"Speculations of the actual nature of SARS are not under any circumstances to be permitted. Keep in mind the currently in- place rules following the outbreak of "Legionnaires Disease." (March 30)

"If this gets any credence, it could wreak havoc with the US cattle industry, not to mention the fast food and restaurant business. Mad-cow has been in the US before and kept very quiet. Let's see if we can't repeat this now." (May 24)

"Regarding North Korea, it is urgently requested by the White House that any reference to the President's determination to remove the existing leadership of that country be downplayed. It should be mentioned as an "option" rather than the intention of the President." (April 19)

"Re. Enormous amounts of US currency found in Iraq. Under no circumstances, it has to be stressed, should any mention of amounts in excess of the publicly stated $600 million be made. And absolutely no mention of the possibility of these $100 bills being counterfeit." (May 3)

"The decision to proceed against Iran has been taken." (May 25)

MARTHA STEWART: "BETTER THE SMALL FRY GET COOKED"

Re. Martha Stewart: "Better the small fry get cooked than the really important ones. Campaign funding? Hah, hah!" (June 7)

"There is a black-out on guerrilla attacks in Afghanistan. The fear is that these are part of a coordinated attack in the Arab world." (June 12)

"The Administration has gotten burned by attacking [Ariel] Sharon. It won't happen again." (June 13)

"North Korea is a back issue for now. We are pulling troops away from the DMZ in case we have to nuke Pyongyang..." (June 13)

"SARS is officially dead. Monkeypox is replacing it. We have beaten SARS to death so it is best to keep the file footage for when it comes back with a bang this winter. With no vaccine in sight, buy masks, kids! If SARS combines with something else, watch out on this one..." (June 14)

"Unemployment is soaring but let's keep this minor key unless some trouble breaks out over it. Justice has evidence of serious labor unrest, especially among ghetto minorities." (June 15)

"Serious problems with the growing resistance movement in Iraq... Iraqi oil is being interdicted before it can be shipped out of the country. Casualties cannot be concealed but can be minimalized....[No pictures of] Iraqis that appear to have been beaten." (June 15)

DIRE MEASURES PLANNED IN IRAQ

"The most severe methods of interdiction are currently being indicated including setting up detention camps, curfews, the issuance of ID cards, the closing of mosques, the detention of religious leaders...An order is being prepared to exclude all foreign media..." (June 16)

"For a decade, the establishment has taken a very dim view of the Internet. It is seen as a method by dissident elements to propagandize the public and publish material that might cause great disruption in the public mind..." [Counter measures are discussed.] (June 16)

" Nailing the people at the tabloid press in Florida was a shot across our bows...the media had best shut its mouth or look what can happen to you. There is no substantive control over the military and official Washington is terrified that they could pull another Northwoods game again..." (June 22)

" Bush was warned repeatedly by Pentagon experts that there was the strong probability of dangerous insurgent activity [but] he and his close advisors such as Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz discounted it. ... Pacification could take years, not weeks or months, and with elections coming up next year, inside White House sources have said the President and Rove are in a panic." (June 28)

"The best way to cover this [fraudulent claims of uranium sales to Iraq ] is to be strictly neutral in comment and we must now maintain a completely neutral position in all of this. If Bush has the same problems Nixon did over Watergate, our viewers cannot see us as being blindly partisan. We have to have plausible deniability in this. The NYT is now beginning to crack the wall of silence surrounding the Presidency and as they are the bellweather, best to watch them closely. " (July 12)

"THE IRAQIS WOULD GET NONE OF THEIR OIL SALES"

"The major disaster for the White House is that they cannot get oil out of Iraq. The plan always was to root out Saddam, occupy the country after securing the oil fields first and then put a CIA trained and controlled local governments into place. This puppet government (let's face it gentlemen, that is what it would be but we can call it Iraqi autonomy) would graciously grant to the US the right to protect their oil resources and assist them in recovering their pre-Desert Storm production levels. In fact, the Iraqis would get none of the proceeds of the oil sales...(July 13)

"The Administration is over a barrel on this [prior warnings of Iraqi guerrilla resistance] because if they try to make too many scapegoats, someone will let the cat out of the bag over who really knew what and what kind of specific warnings the White House had actually received?the same scenario as the 9-11 warnings..." (July 13)

"There is a growing fear in counter intelligence circles that if the resistance movement in Iraq is not stopped, the resulting very bad PR might cause an "incident" somewhere in the US just before election time to whip the voters up to vote for Bush as a "wartime leader" who can put a number of draconian laws and edicts in place to "protect the American people." Someone in the FBI said to one of our people, entirely off the record, that quote it will probably be the Statue of Liberty endquote.

There must be no speculation on this subject under any circumstances. If some rigged incident does happen and we comment on it in advance, new regulations could cause us serious problems... If this happens, it will be Rumsfeld who plans and executes it. This will give the President the usual deniability. It is more than likely that we will get some advance notice of such an action and then decisions can be made relative to going to the public. On one hand, it would be a magnificent media coup guaranteeing ratings off the chart and on the other, a death sentence..." (July 14)

"OPEN MUTINY"

"The White House is now moving into a bunker mentality, very much like Nixon during the end of the Watergate business. With mounting Iraqi opposition and facing a very capable guerrilla movement, supplied by Syria and Russia, the US has run into the stonewall we all predicted. His personality will not permit the President to withdraw in good order; the neocons and the oil people will simply not let him. Bush is stuck between the rock and the proverbial hard place... Serious growing unrest in the troops coupled with very low morale, growing death tolls, lack of rotation, real fear of being fatally attacked are all leading to a situation that our Pentagon source informs us could actually erupt into open mutiny.

Couple all of this with the terrible economy, the insistence of the Bush people on insane tax cuts (to help out corporate America), the obvious right wing political and religious fanatics supporting the President and we have the makings of serious, probably fatal, domestic problems. The fear is that a frantic Administration could connive at some kind of domestic terrorism if and when they perceive the President slumping badly in the polls. He already is and it looks like it might go like the economy. Today, a 65% favorite; tomorrow matching [Grey] Davis' 20%. " (July 17)

"We have to sit on stories of serious physical abuse of Iraqi citizens. Most sensitive (and we put the blackout on this subject) are the numerous rapes and sexual assaults against Iraqis. Interesting are the unreported but fully known homosexual rap... the real problem here is that US GI minorities are mostly responsible for these and Bush needs these votes in November so on with the lid... we don't think they can keep this shut up for too long... the Okinawa syndrome all over again." (July 20)








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Re: Sensational Memos Lift the Lid on News Control [Re: Learyfan]
    #1779789 - 08/04/03 09:59 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

you must be a freshman conspiracy theorist. we take shit like this for granted at the senior levels.

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Re: Sensational Memos Lift the Lid on News Control [Re: Learyfan]
    #1779804 - 08/04/03 10:04 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

That is old news.

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Re: Sensational Memos Lift the Lid on News Control [Re: DoctorJ]
    #1779829 - 08/04/03 10:17 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

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DoctorJ said:
you must be a freshman conspiracy theorist. we take shit like this for granted at the senior levels.




You take for granted that TV network executives show people disks with 1500 memos on it?


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That is old news




I haven't seen it before. Is there a link? If so i'll delete this.




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Re: Sensational Memos Lift the Lid on News Control [Re: Learyfan]
    #1779865 - 08/04/03 10:30 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

Nope. My best friend was a news editor for a local channel in the 70's. I have known about it since then. I assume that if I knew about it I wasn't alone.

Your picture of Asscroft in OTD talking about homosexuality was the funniest one I yours I have ever seen. Sick, but funny as hell.

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Re: Sensational Memos Lift the Lid on News Control [Re: ]
    #1780067 - 08/04/03 11:28 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

I'm confused. These memos supposedly date back to no earlier than 2001. How could your friend in the 70's have told you all this?






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Re: Sensational Memos Lift the Lid on News Control [Re: Learyfan]
    #1780076 - 08/04/03 11:32 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

Strange how you still here the same bullshit about the media being left-wing when this is the reality of the situation.


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Re: Sensational Memos Lift the Lid on News Control [Re: Xlea321]
    #1780195 - 08/05/03 12:10 AM (20 years, 7 months ago)

The liberal media is only in it for the money.


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Re: Sensational Memos Lift the Lid on News Control [Re: Learyfan]
    #1780266 - 08/05/03 12:39 AM (20 years, 7 months ago)

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I'm confused. These memos supposedly date back to no earlier than 2001. How could your friend in the 70's have told you all this?




Because this didn't start in 2001. It's happening all the time. :smirk: 

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Re: Sensational Memos Lift the Lid on News Control [Re: zeronio]
    #1780569 - 08/05/03 03:29 AM (20 years, 7 months ago)

Perhaps - but I have NEVER seen evidence of this scope, nor this damning. Assuming it's valid, of course.

Obviously, we've all had our suspicions about political control and motivation of the news media over the last few years (and more specifically, since 9/11), but this level of control - these kind of specifics - are even beyond what I thought was going on.

I envisioned a set of much more generalized mandates to be carried out by the media. To have specific guidelines for so many specific issues... yoinks.


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Re: Sensational Memos Lift the Lid on News Control [Re: Learyfan]
    #1781363 - 08/05/03 11:11 AM (20 years, 7 months ago)

Reading through some of the memos, it seems so are completly off the wall, like instructing reporters EXACTLY what to show.

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(March 10)?.pro-Government rallies are to be given the fullest coverage?if anti-Government demonstrations are shown, it is desired to stress either a very small number of ?eccentrics? or shots of social misfits; i.e., with beards, tattoos, physical deformities, etc. Pro-Government supporters should be seen as clean cut with as many well-groomed subjects as possible.




If this is true, its shocking. But I find it hard to believe executives would go into such specifics in memos that can be read by anyone. I also have a hard time believing that this site somehow came into possesion of these memos.


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Re: Sensational Memos Lift the Lid on News Control [Re: DellComputers]
    #1781394 - 08/05/03 11:23 AM (20 years, 7 months ago)

It's not all that uncommon. There have been zillions of instances of employees who become disillusioned with the way their company does business, or who discover illegal or immoral goings on, who then 'leak' sensitive information - often anonymously - with the sole intent of bringing these practices to light. This can be aimed at getting information to the public (this has been done with McDonalds, Intel, NASA, and Wal-Mart, off the top of my head), or getting damning information shown to law-enforcement agencies.

There are people in this world who are willing to do the right thing, even if that means making their own lives more difficult in the short-term (i.e. losing their job, or even facing criminal charges for contractual breach). And god knows, we could use some more of them.


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Re: Sensational Memos Lift the Lid on News Control [Re: DellComputers]
    #1781420 - 08/05/03 11:33 AM (20 years, 7 months ago)

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(March 10)?.pro-Government rallies are to be given the fullest coverage?if anti-Government demonstrations are shown, it is desired to stress either a very small number of ?eccentrics? or shots of social misfits; i.e., with beards, tattoos, physical deformities, etc. Pro-Government supporters should be seen as clean cut with as many well-groomed subjects as possible.




That's very different from what I've experienced. One's I've been in have had all types, and all types have made it on the news. They seem to love showing 'old grannies for peace' in particular.

Pro-war demonstrators do tend to dress more conservatively. Even I tone it down a bit.

Giant puppets and thugs in masks make the news every time, though. That's what they're supposed to do.

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Re: Sensational Memos Lift the Lid on News Control [Re: wingnutx]
    #1781497 - 08/05/03 11:59 AM (20 years, 7 months ago)

At the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom, I went to a peace rally in my city. There were a lot of outlandish hippies there with their faces painted and stuff, screaming rhetoricized slogans like "Drop Bush, not Bombs" and the media got plenty of footage of that. The reporters asked these kids why they were protesting and they weren't able to give good answers, because they were kids acting on an emotional impulse to protest an unjust war.

There were also some older, more conservatively dressed people there. When the cameras came to them and the reporters asked them questions, they gave intelligent, concise, well articulated reasons for protesting the war.

When I got home and turned on the news that night, there was plenty of footage of the protester kids shouting "Give Peace A Chance", and "Make Love, not War"

But the older protesters with intelligent things to say were strangely absent from the report.

Anyone who hadn't been to the rally would have gotten the impression from the news that war protesters and war protesting are stupid and there is no logic behind it.

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Re: Sensational Memos Lift the Lid on News Control [Re: DoctorJ]
    #1781814 - 08/05/03 01:29 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

I saw the same types of reports you did, yet I never saw a single report on all the 'pro-America' rallies that happened around the country. All that was shown were the anti-war rallies. I think those were composed of three groups.

1. Legitamate informed protesters that were using their rights to express their feelings about the war.

2. Young punks that had no idea what the issues were, and were there so they could be cool like the hippies.

3. People with other agendas completely.

The first group I have no problem with, and am glad they exist. The other two are all a bunch of jackasses.

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Re: Sensational Memos Lift the Lid on News Control [Re: shakta]
    #1782093 - 08/05/03 02:39 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

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shakta said:
I saw the same types of reports you did, yet I never saw a single report on all the 'pro-America' rallies that happened around the country. All that was shown were the anti-war rallies. I think those were composed of three groups.

1. Legitamate informed protesters that were using their rights to express their feelings about the war.

2. Young punks that had no idea what the issues were, and were there so they could be cool like the hippies.

3. People with other agendas completely.

The first group I have no problem with, and am glad they exist. The other two are all a bunch of jackasses.


I don't think too many people were there just "so they could be cool". I mean, if they supported the war, I really think they'd find better ways to be cool. As for the 3rd bullet, while I agree that people may have "other agendas" (such as showing opposition to Bush), I still don't think they'd be there if they were pro-war.


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Re: Sensational Memos Lift the Lid on News Control [Re: shakta]
    #1782107 - 08/05/03 02:45 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

Young punks

Heaven forbid! Yeah those youngsters really need to toe the line and go and get a haircut don't they.

What are you doing at a shroom board?  :confused:


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Re: Sensational Memos Lift the Lid on News Control [Re: Cornholio]
    #1782117 - 08/05/03 02:48 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

Come on man. I am not saying the wannabes were there because they supported the war. They were there because they thought it was cool not to. My point is this group of people were there to protest the war without being informed.

I have no doubt the third group were anti-war. These were the financiers of the big rallies whose real objectives would most likely not be embraced by most of the protestors if they knew the truth.

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Re: Sensational Memos Lift the Lid on News Control [Re: Xlea321]
    #1782131 - 08/05/03 02:52 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

You have to be an ultra liberal to enjoy shrooms Alex? The young punks are the ones who were not informed. I had a couple of friends that protested that fit in this category. They had no clue why the were protesting. They were doing it because it seemed cool. I asked them why they were against the war and they had no real answers. I have no problem with protestors at all. Just know why you are protesting something, or you are just a sheep.

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Re: Sensational Memos Lift the Lid on News Control [Re: shakta]
    #1782263 - 08/05/03 03:23 PM (20 years, 7 months ago)

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shakta said:
The young punks are the ones who were not informed. I had a couple of friends that protested that fit in this category. They had no clue why the were protesting. They were doing it because it seemed cool. I asked them why they were against the war and they had no real answers. I have no problem with protestors at all. Just know why you are protesting something, or you are just a sheep.




I will agree, in theory, that most people are woefully undereducated and underinformed about positions and issues to which they subscribe some sort of opinion. This is pure lazyness and apathy. A person can usually be counted on to do the right thing. People, however, are idiots.

That said, I think people discount gut reaction and emotional response that people may have towards an issue. Because they cannot clearly articulate their motivations behind, say, protesting a war, their presence is discounted in it's entirety. I think if more people went with their guts on issues, instead of being afraid to do anything for fear of being called out on their "ignorance", then we'd all be in a better place.

It's a bit of a catch 22 - fear of being percieved as ignorant precludes involvement in many issues; getting more involved leads one to become more educated; becoming more educated leads to solidifying your belief structure, leading to more pointed activism...


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