Borjesson, Kristina, ed. Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose
the Myth of a Free Press. New York: Prometheus Books, 2002. 392 pages.
You don't need an investigator to discover that today, American
journalism does more harm than good -- polls show that average Americans
know this already. The "story behind the suppressed story" chapters in this
book are contributed by newspaper and TV journalists, as well as authors of
investigative books. The latter are familiar to NameBase users, but some
of the TV news people figured out the important story only after they became
unemployed. For example, CBS producer Kristina Borjesson spent many months
pursuing the TWA 800 tragedy, in which 230 passengers and crew were brought
down off the coast of New York by a friendly-fire accident in July, 1996.
Borjesson's evidence was ignored and suppressed by her bosses at CBS, she
was lied to by numerous government officials, more than a hundred witnesses
were systematically ignored, the CIA produced a laughable animation, and
the FBI's designated liar in charge of the case ended up working for CBS.
Much of the problem can be traced to corporate centralization and
government deregulation. Refreshingly, in the last chapter Robert
McChesney, an expert in the history of U.S. media, reminds us that in
the early 1900s, the Socialist Party published some 325 newspapers and
magazines. At that time, it was presumed that corporate media could only
produce propaganda. "And that's the way it is," as CBS used to say.
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