The pressure was there, from the top down. Bill Moyers started the chatter last year, McClellan’s new book brought it back to the surface yesterday, and we got some amazingly transparent comments from a journalist last evening.
Journalists were ‘under enormous pressure from corporate executives’
Bill Moyers had a PBS special last year called, “Buying the War,” which included all kinds of fascinating insights on the journalistic malpractice at the nation’s major news outlets leading up to the war in Iraq. Most notably, Moyers pressed Walter Isaacson, former chairman and CEO of CNN, to explain what transpired. Isaacson noted there [...]
And, further explanation from her today:
Jessica Yellin Congressional Correspondent I find myself in an interesting position. Today the blogs lit up with comments I made last night on AC360° and suddenly I’m being reported on. It’s not the most comfortable position for a reporter. So let me clarify what I said and what I experienced. First, this involved my time on MSNBC where I worked [...]
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