NBC Execs Privately Briefed On War With Iran

[Murray]

NBC Execs Privately Briefed On War With Iran By General McCaffrey

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCY30FXgLVY

more on the general -

Gen. McCaffrey Still Stoking Iran Fears at NBC

[DreamsInDigital]

Great posts, I think this one is something everyone needs to see.

[mountain_jim]

Brilliant piece by Cenk. I had already read Greenwald on this , but Cenk brings the righteousness!

NBC's parent company (GE) makes serious coin on wars as well, as I recall.

[Calz]

Posted by Muzz (here)
NBC Execs Privately Briefed On War With Iran By General McCaffrey

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCY30FXgLVY

more on the general -

Gen. McCaffrey Still Stoking Iran Fears at NBC

Sorry ... ya know what ... some times it must be done.

[Murray]

Posted by mountain_jim (here)
Brilliant piece by Cenk. I had already read Greenwald on this , but Cenk brings the righteousness!

NBC's parent company (GE) makes serious coin on wars as well, as I recall.

Hi mountain jim, thanks

Here the report jim mentions

Gen. McCaffrey privately briefs NBC execs on war with Iran
By Glenn Greenwald

In 2009, The New York Times‘ David Barstow won the Pulitzer Prize for his two-part series on the use by television networks of retired Generals posing as objective “analysts” at exactly the same time they were participating — unbeknownst to viewers — in a Pentagon propaganda program. Many were also plagued by undisclosed conflicts of interest whereby they had financial stakes in many of the policies they were pushing on-air. One of the prime offenders was Gen. Barry McCaffrey, who was not only a member of the Pentagon’s propaganda program, but also, according to Barstow’s second stand-alone article, had his own “Military-Industrial-Media Complex,” deeply invested in many of the very war policies he pushed and advocated while posing as an NBC “analyst”: read more

[Camilo]

Just pure speculation and fear mongering. This guy's trying to get some ratings.

[mountain_jim]

Posted by Muzz (here)

Posted by mountain_jim (here)
Brilliant piece by Cenk. I had already read Greenwald on this , but Cenk brings the righteousness!

NBC's parent company (GE) makes serious coin on wars as well, as I recall.

Hi mountain jim, thanks

Here the report jim mentions

Gen. McCaffrey privately briefs NBC execs on war with Iran
By Glenn Greenwald

In 2009, The New York Times‘ David Barstow won the Pulitzer Prize for his two-part series on the use by television networks of retired Generals posing as objective “analysts” at exactly the same time they were participating — unbeknownst to viewers — in a Pentagon propaganda program. Many were also plagued by undisclosed conflicts of interest whereby they had financial stakes in many of the policies they were pushing on-air. One of the prime offenders was Gen. Barry McCaffrey, who was not only a member of the Pentagon’s propaganda program, but also, according to Barstow’s second stand-alone article, had his own “Military-Industrial-Media Complex,” deeply invested in many of the very war policies he pushed and advocated while posing as an NBC “analyst”: read more

Thanks for reposting the link. I went back and saw the later update where NBC trashed Glenn, and then he proceeded to eviscerate them and their trash-attempt.

That's why Glenn Greenwald is on my daily reading list (though I missed a day and this update), and has been since he was a lone blogger just getting started with a self-hosted blog Unclaimed Territory, way before Salon came calling.

[mountain_jim]

Posted by Camilo (here)
Just pure speculation and fear mongering. This guy's trying to get some ratings.

Are you talking about Cenk? He could use ratings, but the story of NBC's being in bed with War propagandists, specifically this General, won a Pulitzer prize, and NBC never covered that story:

From the Greenwald update:

NBC “listens to and values the views of” Gen. McCaffrey despite his ample conflicts of interest and other undisclosed commercial activities which David Barstow won a Pulitzer Prize for documenting, and in this case, those views are absurdly alarmist and fear-mongering
....
Note that NBC does not claim that any part of my discussion of its involvement in the Pentagon propaganda program — including the suppression by Brian Williams and the rest of its news division of all discussion of that huge story — is inaccurate. Nor does it dispute any of the facts I conveyed about McCaffrey.

[Murray]

Hello Camilo

Just pure speculation

Greenwalds produces the powerpoint.

On January 12, 2012, McCaffrey presented a seminar to roughly 20 NBC executives and producers — including NBC News President Steve Capus — entitled “Iran, Nukes & Oil: The Gulf Confrontation.” We’ve obtained the Power Point document McCaffrey prepared and distributed for his presentation.

Which you veiw here - http://media.salon.com/2012/02/Scan0011.pdf

Check the update, it looks like nbc are not refuting the article.

Nor does it dispute any of the facts I conveyed about McCaffrey. Indeed, despite its opening flurry of accusations, NBC does not even purport to identify a single inaccuracy in any thing I reported.

And the way i see it he is exposing a fear monger who is making profits from war.

[Dennis Leahy]

This is important. Watch, and share this across your email and social networking contacts.

Dennis

p.s. This is the opposite of fear-mongering - this is exposing fear-mongering and beating the drums of war.

[truth will win out]

Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)
This is important. Watch, and share this across your email and social networking contacts.

Dennis

p.s. This is the opposite of fear-mongering - this is exposing fear-mongering and beating the drums of war.

I agree. I think people are just surprised that it came from someone in msm Very detailed and sickening.

Never ends it seems.

[mountain_jim]

Cenk also was burned by MSNBC (> NBC > war-profiteer GE) , who tried to control and tone him down when he had a show there. He knows the BS that goes on there, and ran him and Olberman out. I am glad he found a new platform at Current TV, where he will not be censured, I believe.

[DreamsInDigital]

It just seems like with this, and some of the other stuff that is coming out, the media is finally breaking ranks and actually getting the truth out. for once, or something closely resembling the truth anyway.

[Kimberley]

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I am expecting the media change to happen very soon, The day when the real news hits the airwaves!!! I am doing my part to make that happen.

Quote from February 27, 2012 In Benjamin Fulfords report:

The CBS news network in the US now has also broken with the cabalists and has begun information warfare with cabalist propaganda outlets like CNN and Fox.

Much love to us all!!

[mountain_jim]

I am waiting to see any evidence that CBS is doing what Fulford claimed.

That claim, plus my disgust from this very story, caused me to switch from NBS to CBS, for those times I want to watch the nightly network propaganda - usually for weather coverage and to see what propaganda they are pushing. I did notice last night CBS seemed a little more even-handed in the Iran/Israel coverage than NBC has been of late, but not enough data points to really say anything for sure.

[Cartomancer]

Posted by mountain_jim (here)
I am waiting to see any evidence that CBS is doing what Fulford claimed.

That claim, plus my disgust from this very story, caused me to switch from NBS to CBS, for those times I want to watch the nightly network propaganda - usually for weather coverage and to see what propaganda they are pushing. I did notice last night CBS seemed a little more even-handed in the Iran/Israel coverage than NBC has been of late, but not enough data points to really say anything for sure.

I do the same thing. It is to the point now where we watch network news if we are in need of a good laugh. Most of the time I watch it I get angry because it is such a sham. Alternative new is good but much of that has an agenda as well. Its important to watch a wide variety and try to discern the real truth. Really telling is the fact that they all have marginalized Ron Paul. Even if you don't like Ron Paul the way he is treated exposes the whole thing.

[Anam Cara]

War is big business and has been for some centuries now. Look at the Iran war didn't want that one either. These people are desparate to keep the control that is leaking away for them in every direction. This is not to speak of the possibility of a massive earthquake(s) on the New Madrid fault line. There's lots and lots and lots going on right now best be in a calm coherent state and/or know how to be in a calm coherent state. We're gunna need it.