What are the odds? Cable News Is Being Coordinated by BushCo

[Vinnie From Indy]

I have always been puzzled by the seeming instant emergence of news stories ON ALL THREE cable news channels AT THE SAME TIME. What are the odds that ALL THREE news networks would begin discussing ad nauseum the same talking points or the same story on the same day.

The two most recent examples are the story of the young co-ed allegedly killed by a bouncer in New York and the sudden emergence and discussion of the latest Rove created "Americans are turning against the war because of the media" talking point. It would seem that there would be at least a few days for differing news departments to all come into sync, but that is not the way it happens. ALL THREE networks suddenly begin to air these stories AT THE SAME TIME. There seems to be no gaps or slow build.

The odds that ALL THREE networks would suddenly begin covering a single murder of a coed in NYC on the same day is off the charts. In a country that records thousands of murders each year, it seems very strange that ALL three begin coverage of a single incident on the same day.

It is the same with the newest BushCo excuse for the disaster in Iraq. What are the odds that all of the three big cable networks and several other news reporting agencies would begin a marathon discussion of the "It's the media's fault" red herring?

It is a bit ironic that the media that cheered the loudest for the Iraqi adventure has been told to punch themselves in the face by BushCo. in an attempt to staunch the rapidly rising anger at the war.

[bluerum]

1. I would take those odds anytime at the blackjack table. nt

[babylonsister]

2. I think the odds are good because the corp. media is lazy.

Here's a story handed to them on a silver platter with all the groundwork already done, plus it has the requisite young woman, bad guy arrested, violent crime.
As for blaming it on the media, I think they are trying to defend themselves after what dimson has suggested, and some seem to be doing a good job. David Schuster comes to mind.

[Vinnie From Indy]

You might be right about the laziness factor.

It could also be that the BushCo director of cable news operations is the lazy one and only gives them one choice of sensational murder to cover when need be.

[blm]

3. Count on it. GOPers didn't buy control of broadcast media in 80s and 90s

so the truth about their fascist agenda could be told.

Ask Gore, Kerry and Dean about unfair press practices.

[savemefromdumbya]

4. Do you remember the story about the Runaway bride

that was so amazing! Just as the Downing Street memos were bubbling up. Yes the Bushies do give the media their orders.

[physioex]

5. That and....

The token missing white woman stories make for great distractions...

[savemefromdumbya]

7. don't they have to be blonde

and live in middle class areas or on holiday in exotic places?

[physioex]

13. LOL....No doubt.....

:hi:

[0007]

6. 'Tis called the "White House Cable of Lies." The Place

where the sheeple eat their daily bread.

[savemefromdumbya]

9. rather like Goebbels department at the time

[Breeze54]

8. We were warned !

The Big Ten
http://www.thenation.com/special/bigten.html

---> What's Wrong With This Picture?
By Mark Crispin Miller
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020107/miller
Snip-->
Today the telejournalistic firmament includes the meteoric Fox News Channel, as well as twenty-six television stations owned outright by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation (which holds majority ownership in a further seven). Although ultimately thwarted in his bid to buy DirecTV and thereby dominate the US satellite television market, Murdoch wields a pervasive influence on the news--and not just in New York, where he has two TV stations, a major daily (the faltering New York Post) and the Fox News Channel, whose inexhaustible platoons of shouting heads attracts a fierce plurality of cable-viewers. Meanwhile, Time Warner has now merged with AOL--so as to own the cyberworks through which to market its floodtide of movies, ball games, TV shows, rock videos, cartoons, standup routines and (not least) bits from CNN, CNN Headline News, CNNfn (devised to counter GE's CNBC) and CNN/Sports Illustrated (a would-be rival to Disney's ESPN franchise). While busily cloning CNN, the parent company has also taken quiet steps to make it more like Fox, with Walter Isaacson, the new head honcho, even visiting the Capitol to seek advice from certain rightist pols on how, presumably, to make the network even shallower and more obnoxious. (He also courted Rush Himself.) All this has occurred since the abrupt defenestration of Ted Turner, who now belatedly laments the overconcentration of the cable business: "It's sad we're losing so much diversity of thought," he confesses, sounding vaguely like a writer for this magazine.<--Snip
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


http://www.freepress.net/content/ownership

[savemefromdumbya]

10. maybe a group should monitor how the 'news' is dished out to the media

perhaps spend a day with the editors of cable news and see how their news info comes in and out?

[KittyWampus]

11. Vinnie, can we also factor in how many times this has happened?

It's not like this happened only yesterday... how many times have we found the same LOCAL story trumpeted on every "news" channel.

Who the bloody hell is deciding that for EVERY news channel?

And then we get to the politics.

[watrwefitinfor]

14. "It's not like this happened only yesterday... "

What did happen yesterday is that it was so hard to miss this time. You'd have to be blind and deaf. On the VERY MORNING before Bush was to proclaim at the press conference later in the day that it was the media's fault, there was that shrill skinny Ingraham? woman screeching on the Today Show how it was the media's fault. Who could POSSIBLY fail to see that she is on the payroll?

It's not just the cable news, it's ALL of them, networks, too.

And how many network "news shows" do you think led last night's newscasts with a piece on the violence in Iraq, or even had a single story on Iraq? The answer is one. PBS.

And why would these "news" organizations and networks accept the blame and go a long with this new program of directly blaming them, when they have been shilling for Bushco all along? I know all the "reasons" but it still seems insane.

Wat

[BenDavid]

12. MEDIAWHORES!

Remember that site....Trying to bring the Media to their knees, but found they were already there.....

What is going to happen in the next round of polling and bush hits 40% approval....The media will cheerlead this to death.... His speechs are working, american people are believing in the president.... forget about clinton being the comeback kid, bush oh bush....Expect it to happen my friends.....

[onenote]

15. and when jonbenet was murdered during clinton's term

was it clinton that told all the media to cover it? No. Loosen the tinfoil. The media compete with each other and watch what each other covers. Plus, if it bleeds it leads is a longstanding tradition in the media...for all networks.

As for the co-ed murder story, all of the networks release stories at the same time because they're all reacting to the same press releases put out by the police. Same goes for the RW talking points...that's the whole point...the WH floods the media with statements and they pick it up and run with it. Its not a conspiracy, its just lazy journalism.

onenote

[Vinnie From Indy]

17. Surely there was more than one white woman murdered last week

Why are all cable news programs focusing on this one at the same time? I am no odds maker, but the repetitive occurrance of the exact same story appearing on the same day on more than just the cable networks cannot, in my mind, be explained as solely the result of laziness.

I think that your point about news directors simply pulling stories off the wires actually strengthens my observation. Control AP and UPI and you essentially control the world . A more efficient way to control and coordinate the media would be hard to find.

[onenote]

22. its been this way forever

WHen baby Jessica fell down the well in the 80s, every news outlet rushed to cover it at the same time.

The contents of Time and Newsweek have been similar for years, and its not unusual for them to have similar covers. Check the front pages of newspapers around the country and more often they cover the same stories and have done so for many years.

Finally, the co-ed murder (which actually occurred a couple of weeks ago)was particularly brutal. (By the way, she doesn't fit the "blonde anglo" stereo-type -- her parents were from Venezuela) and it hasn't received anywhere near the coverage that some of "missing teen" stories have gotten...it basically has reappeared in most of the media whenever the police have had new information to report.(Not every outlet has treated the story the same...MSNBC, for example, seems to have latched onto this one with a particular vengeance).

onenote

[global1]

16. On My TV I Have The Ability To Watch Two Channels At Once.....

I usually have on MSNBC and CNN. It is amazing as to how many times that the exact same story is playing at the exact same time on both channels. Sometimes this goes down to the same information being displayed on the banner going across the screen at the same time. Sometimes the exact same copy is being read at the same time. It uncanny. I know we have Reuters, AP, etc and that the news channels pick up the story from them - but it just seems like too much of a coincidence that this is happening as often as it does.

[JohnyCanuck]

18. Maybe Dr. Livergood is on the right track.

From Brainwashing America by Dr. Norman Livergood:

In an earlier article, I reviewed the varied aspects of personality profiling and simulation. While serving as Head of the Artificial Intelligence Department at the U.S. Army War College, 1993-1995, I conducted studies on profiling, psychological programming, and brainwashing. I explored and developed personality simulation systems, an advanced technology used in military war games, FBI profiling, political campaigning, and advertising. Part of my discovery was that:

* unenlightened human minds are combinations of infantile beliefs and emotional patterns

* these patterns can be simulated in profiling systems

* these profiling systems can be used to program and control people

Personality simulation systems are being used to create political campaigns that apply voter profiles to control their voting behavior. TV commercials and programs use personality simulation to profile viewers to control their purchasing and viewing behaviors. And sophisticated propaganda and brainwashing techniques are being used by the Bush junta to keep American citizens under control.(my emphasis /jc)

http://www.hermes-press.com/brainwash1.htm

[KittyWampus]

19. Thanks, great read!

[KittyWampus]

20. Livergood's Newest Book: Portals to Higher Consciousness!

It reads much like my Qabalistic studies and jives closely to much of what I've tried to argue here on DU in various threads. And the fact he begins his work discussing Water indicates to me he is, in fact, the "real McCoy" and understands Esoteric Science.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Preparation
Poisoned Water: A Parable for Our Time
Ch. 1. Portals to Higher Consciousness
Ch. 2. Discovering the Spiritual Domain
Ch. 3. Expanding Human Consciousness
Ch. 4. Experiential Participation in Higher Consciousness
Ch. 5. Psychic and Spiritual Alchemy
Ch. 6. The Higher Mysteries

Portals and Processes
Ch. 7. Evoking Higher Spiritual Powers
Ch. 8. Disclosure of High Knowledge through Perennialist Art
Ch. 9. Communing With Kindred Souls
Ch. 10. Magic, Science, Religion, and Spirituality
Ch. 11. Brain, Mind, and Altered States of Consciousness
Ch. 12. Hypnotic Trance in Spiritual Development
Ch. 13. The Essence of Hypnotic Trance Induction
Ch. 14. The Higher Trance State
Ch. 15. Activity in the Spiritual World
Ch. 16. A Meditation on Love: the Greater Mystery
Ch. 17. Transformative Contemplation
Ch. 18. The New Language of Spiritual Inspiration
Ch. 19. Vanquishing Ignorance
Ch. 20. Perennialist Sanctuaries
Ch. 21. Translation in the Perennial Tradition
Ch. 22. Unitive Consciousness
Ch. 23. Spiritual Healing

Social Aspects
Ch. 24. Rediscovering and Preserving Human Wealth
Ch. 25. Realizing a New World
Ch. 26. Developing Social and Spiritual Awareness
Ch. 27. The Process of Human Evolution
Ch. 28. Evolution's Next Step
Ch. 29. The Triumph of Civilization
Ch. 30. Esoteric Christianity
Ch. 31. Overcoming the Present Dark Age

Seekers of the Way
Ch. 32. Helen Keller as Mystic
Ch. 33. William Blake as Mystic
Ch. 34. Emily Dickinson as Mystic
Ch. 35. Plotinus's Practical Mysticism

Plato As a Perennialist Teacher
Ch. 36. Introduction to the Study of Plato's Philosophy
Ch. 37. Plato's Contemporary Relevance
Ch. 38. Plato's Mystical ScienceMaieutic Psychagogy
Ch. 39. How Philosophy Overcomes Tyranny
Ch. 40. What and How Plato's Dialogues Teach Us
Ch. 41. How Philosophy Overcomes Propaganda
Ch. 42. A Platonic Meditation On Beauty

[fed-up]

21. I suggest you watch "Outfoxed" nt

[Ufomammut]

23. PLEASE watch MANUFACTURING CONSENT, and....

Orwell Rolls In His Grave. "Outfoxed" is fairly lightweight fare compared to these two comprehensive documentaries.

[ladjf]

24. A "lead pipe cinch". The administration "owns" the cables.

[Vinnie From Indy]

25. The evidence is overwhelming!

eom

[ladjf]

27. If the Dems could capture the house and senate in 2006,

legislation could be passed to break up the media monopolies. In the 2004 primaries, one week after Dean said that if elected he would do exactly that, the media decided to "out him" and were frighteningly effective. Is was a piece of cake. They were assisted by other Dem hopefuls who were all to glad to cooperate with knocking Dean out of the race. Dean himself just wasn't quite savvy enough to understand what was happening. But, that's another story.

[Initech]

26. Havent watched cable news since 9/11/01. And that's why.

There's no such thing as the liberal media despite what Fat Ass Limbaugh or Hannity or O'Reilly or Savage tell you. If you think it's even slightly liberal, you're not paying attention.

[WinkyDink]

28. It's just what comes across the Internet "ticker-tape" from AP.