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Into the Buzzsaw

Into the Buzzsaw. Observations. FOREWORD By Gore Vidal. The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America

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Into the Buzzsaw

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  1. Into the Buzzsaw Observations

  2. FOREWORDBy Gore Vidal • The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America • “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

  3. Editor’s Introduction • Personal experience formed the motivation to assemble the thoughts of others. • Personal concern for the state of censorship in the U.S. • Investigative Reporting is dying.

  4. The Price of LibertyGerard Colby • Who is Gerard Colby? • National Writers Union (AFL-CIO) affiliation. • He has published in a variety of national and local periodicals. • He has published a number of books. • What might be his biases? • Can you imagine what his perspective might be? • Privishing (Privately Publish) • The practice of killing a book by limiting its publicity, re-publishing, and initial run. • Claims wide spread activity • Claims done secretly – Inconsistent? Then how does he know? • The new publishers tricks – since 1995 • 6 weeks to success – Orders disappearing off of computers • Failure to print • Keep raising the order number needed to re-publish • No references or outside substantiation for this? • Insinuations of exerting influence on the judicial system as well as the publisher, Prentice Hall. • References included for the facts as reported. • Is his interpretation of the facts logical? • Can there be another interpretation of the facts? • Old wealth and CIA connections? • Rockefellers – Duponts – Fundamentalists • Following the money or sour grapes?

  5. PonderingThe Price of Liberty • Is investigative reporting being shoved out by “Celebrity” books? • Insurance costs? • Lack of public interest? • Mainstream press interest in local issues? • Publishing decisions dictated by accountants not editors? – Profit the ugly word? • How important is a free press? • How do we come to accept truth? • How do you get news about your country, state, city, and local issues? • What we don’t know can’t hurt us?

  6. THE FOX, THE HOUNDS, AND THE SACRED COWSBy Jane Akre • Who is Jane Akre? • Network and local television news reporter. • Journalistic awards – by whom and what might their agenda be, if any? • Big Business (Monsanto) and Government Agencies (FDA and CVM) “rGBH” (Posilac) – Milk producing hormone for cows. • Monsanto sends a threatening letter to FOX news and the investigative piece is pulled. Fact or fiction? • News or Entertainment? • Murdoch buys FOX affiliates and Jane bashes news director Sue Kawalerski and Dave Boylan. • Conspiracy? The Dairy Coalition. • Jane is fired, sues FOX under the whistle blower statutes; attributing firing to her refusal to “slant” the Monsanto story – 2 YR delay – awarded 425K – Yet we have not heard of this on the “mass” national media. • The media as a “Sacred Cow”. Hearsay from another reporter that an editor added a line to her story intimating that Jane and Steve were not believed by the Jurors when they accused FOX of bowing to pressure from Monsanto. • What was the Food Lion case and why does Jane cite it as relevant to her situation?

  7. The Silence of the Lambs: An American in Journalistic ExileGreg Palast • Accuses Jeb Bush of scrubbing the voting roles of blacks and white democrats who would have voted for Gore. False felons? • It was reported in Europe not here, why? • Was it vote theft? Or was this accusation cause for it not being printed? Did he have proof? • Accusations of Profit Lust – starting to sound familiar aka Jane. • “almost all Democrats”, what does that mean? • CBS “your story didn’t hold up” – It ran on the BBC anyway. Comments from the gallery? • Threats of law suits and the truth – does it suffer or does the truth need documentation, documentation, and more of the same before it can be recognized as truth? • Mudracking – post presidential employment – no free press in Britain – no one wants it? • Risk – Time – Money -- evaluating investigative reports • Repression – your thoughts please! • A final dose of perspective – sticky note.

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