C-span doesn't report news & doesn't care about the DOWNING STREET MEMO

In a message dated 5/28/2005 7:23:51 PM Pacific Daylight Time, TruthSeekersElection2004@yahoogroups.com writes:
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From: cj4books
To: september_eleven_coup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 10:35 AM
Subject: ALERT: Downing Street... ON C-SPAN THIS AM


Someone called Washington Journal this morning and asked Peter, the host, if he was familiar with the Downing Street memo. Peter, said he hadn't heard about it (HMMMMM). The caller went on to discuss the memo briefly, then Peter asked where he got the information. The caller mentioned the bried news articles then said he read most of it on the Internet.

Peter then asked him which website he had read it on. The caller didn't mention any... Peter then said that there have been several calls lately and that he thinks this is being orchestrated by "some website" and that the calls were somehow being staged.

The next person that said the words "Downing Street" was cut off.... Peter hung up on her and they moved on to the next caller. She made a quick comment pertinent to the original question, then said, "and let me tell you about the Downing Street Memo..." CLICK! Then he quickly said "we are going to move on". WTF?!?


journal@c-span.org journal @ c-span dot org


SOMEONE is desperate to discredit this story... Maybe C-Span is trying to play up this "organized call-in" scenario to help feed false info to the many who watch C-Span but aren't connected to the internet.

AND WHO CARES IF IT'S ORCHESTRATED? IT'S ALL OVER THE INTERNET AND UNBELIEVABLY IMPORTANT... THEY JUST DON'T SEEM CARE.

One only has to view some of the names on the full list of people who make up the Board of Directors for C-Span to understand what they have become. Altough, I still tend to watch C-Span over all the other options.


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journal@c-span.org

Here's an email sent to Washington Journal forwarded to me from a friend:


Your host this morning said that C-Span has received several calls talking about the Downing Street memo and wonder if there is an "organized" effort in calling in to C-Span and asking about this. There doesn't need to be any organized effort - it is all over the internet. If you guys truly, TRULY are unaware of this memo then a
simple Google search will turn up over 300,000 hits to further your education. (So either the hosts are truly uninformed or at the very least not possessing any journalistic inquisitiveness, which calls into question their ability to host such a program, or they are deliberately skirting this issue which begs the question, why?) This memo shows there was a concerted effort to skew facts, figures and information to get the US and England into a war with Iraq. The American people deserve to know what exactly has occurred. For the life of me I can not imagine one reason why C-Span continues to stonewall any discussion of this item.

Memorial Day is coming up, there will be plenty of programs and shows honoring our military dead. How about really honoring their memory by uncovering any lies that might have lead to their untimely and unnecessary death? We will never know the truth if the media - including C-Span - doesn't cover it.

The Downing Street memo is huge news and you would be doing your viewers a service if you would have someone on your program to discuss this information. To get you started, so you will know this story has "legs" - here is the memo -

http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/memo.html

DO YOUR JOB.

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OR send something like this
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So, Peter,

You say you know nothing about the Downing Street memo? Well here
are a few resourses from US sources to cue you in.

<<insert several links here>>

Your behavior this morning on Wash Journal was disgusting!!


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Heard today you do not know about the Downing Street Memo. FYI

News articles:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1593607,00...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0517/dailyUpdate.html

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8709.ht...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/20/politics/20weapons.ht...


http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/1714145.php

TeeVee:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/16/iraq.memo


Political Actions:

http://www.conyersblog.us/archives/00000085.htm

http://www.democrats.com/book/print/4749

The Text:

www.downingstreetmemo.com/memo.html


Sincerely,

XXX

note is Dated 5-28 and is number #7 of Digest 407

here is the URL again TruthSeekersElection2004@yahoogroups.com

C-Span is not a "Reporting" orginization in the sense that we have comes to expect News programming to reflect the state of current events. This is not C-Span's function and if it were up to me those call-in shows would come off of C-Span immediately. They reflect opnion, not events. C-Span would do well to avoid discussion of any opnion that was not being stated in the Congress or its committees. My only concession to this notion is BookTV on the weekends, when the Congress is not in session.

With his clearly Republican support.

I watch it almost EVERY morning! Sure it's opinion, but it gives each side the opportunity to voice their opinion, and I think its's great that all the listeners get a chance to hear all different ideas.

This is not C-Span's function

You are correct but they do cover issues. They have guests on that discuss specific subjects/issues. The lack of coverage of the memo is an issue itself.

But we do know C-span's main function...that is to wait by the phone 24/7 for the American Enterprise Institute to call and tell them the latest spot on the planet where one or two old fascist SOBs from AEI and microphone are -- spewing their half truths and bullshit...then C-span goes into action and sends a full crew. Then they replay it over and over.

It should be called the "AEI Network" at times.

I am trying to place "Peter" -- there is one of their hosts who I think tries to be fair but he is really, really naive and uninformed on many subjects, imho.

Every single time I turn it on, I have to listen to somebody from AEI -- they even got someone from AEI to be a supposed "impartial Constitutional scholar," one time. Give me a fucking break -- this is the home of that loony bitch who thinks that Saddam blew up the Oklahoma Federal Building, which spawned the "Freepers Flowchart of Delusion," linking Saddam to everything from Jim Morrison's death to the disappearance of the Dutch Apple Pop Tart.

AEI gives me a headache. Richard Perle is a laugh a minute, though.

if anyone has any reputable sources to email cspan. I bet their mailbox is overflowing! I missed WJ this morning, but I suspect there wasn't anything about the memo or it would have been here on DU already. I bet there's lots of scurrying around behind the scenes on this one, and they'll have a few guests on, in the near future, to talk about it.

cause I was part of it.

above memo.

I'd post the thread, but don't know how.

that they had to change it from pro democratic and pro gop to pro democratic and pro bush*...when clinton was president it was by time zone?? go figure?????

moderators - He's disgusting! I've seen him in action on and off for years. A couple of years ago someone called in and said they were a Republican but not a Bush supporter (I don't remember what the topic was) Peter said (I swear to God) - "If you're not a Bush supporter, you're not a Republican" and hung up on the guy!!!!! I started SCREAMING at the T.V. (as I know how much that helps - LOL) and then shot off an email to them immediately. I even called them (I don't remember where I called). I received no reponse regarding the email or the call. Pedro and Steve seem pretty middle of the road (as they SHOULD be)!

Such a blatant display of suppression - absolutely disgusting. C-SPAN has always been one of the biggest reasons I subscribe to cable, but if this is what it's become, I can get suppression of truth a hell of a lot cheaper from the networks!

favor our point...such as john conyers hearing on media bias yesterday, which was just downright amazing. is it tilted toward the right? you bet, but we do get a few bones.

They got calls everyday for 4 years about Bush being AWOL and they all claimed they didn't know what the callers were talking about, until Michail Moore said it at the convention. THEN they suddenly knew all about it, but their attitude was "so what?" and they let it drop as old news.

See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=320&topic_id=341#414

NOMINATED!

that clearly shows a conspiracy between Bush and Blair to fake intelligence in order to launch their colonial war against Iraq?

I've been saying for months that Brian Lamb slanted to the right. It's subtle, it's passive agressive and it's real. He's the head honcho, it's HIS network, he calls the shots.

I have lost count on how many times he blows of left leaning callers with questions, while lets the right callers ramble on and on.

One only need watch the recent programs with Coulter and Drudge.