Under the headline, "Some Things Never Fail to Surprise," Josh Marshall asks:
Can it really be true that the list of Americans who will appear on the Sunday shows this weekend is David Petraeus, Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich and John McCain?
Link says yes:
• ABC, This Week: Gen. David Petraeus, Commander of CENTCOM; Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).
• CBS, Face The Nation: Former Vice President Dick Cheney.
• CNN, State Of The Union: Gen. David Petraeus, Commander of CENTCOM.
• Fox News Sunday: Gen. David Petraeus, Commander of CENTCOM; former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA).
• NBC, Meet The Press: Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan; Asif Ali Zardari, President of Pakistan.
Josh says: "I guess it really is a center-right nation."
You betcha!
So I guess they won't be discussing NYT reporter David Barstow's Pulitzer Prize
his tenacious reporting that revealed how some retired generals, working as radio and television analysts, had been co-opted by the Pentagon to make its case for the war in Iraq, and how many of them also had undisclosed ties to companies that benefited from policies they defended.
The Pulitzers were announced on April 20, but somehow the Sunday shows just haven't been able to squeeze him in to discuss how they and their network bosses were in the tank for BushCo's criminally fraudulent war, that has actually inflamed hatred and boosted terrorist recruitment against the US. No, the Inspector General's report supposedly clearing BushCo of all wrongdoing was quietly withdrawn this week, and the only national TV interview Barstow has had was on Democracy Now! just this Friday.
And I guess they also won't be discussing former Afghan prime minister Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai's call for an investigation into charges that US soldiers are trying to convert Afghans to Christianity, following a report on Al Jazeera. That, too, will only be discussed on Democracy Now, as it was on on Wednesday.
These are two different stories that deal with the workings of hegemony and the military, and they won't get any discussion whatsoever in the corporate media, even though one of them won the top journalistic prize in the nation. What clearer demonstration of hegemony at work could you possibly ask for?
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