CDR: Re: Connie Chung fucks up & things are not as they seem.A good example of the tremen
Declan McCullagh writes:
Source? TV show? Date? Transcript?
-Declan
Declan, my source is the net address listed below. At the top of that page are a "general info" button and a "contact us" button. Under "general info" they list info@iraap.org as their email address. They also list there their snail mail address. That's all I know of the source. This looks like a job for an investgative reporter such as yourself:-) Sorry I am not more helpful. If you can actually validate from tv network sources that that sequel occurred, you will have a great big can of worms to play with :-) -Good luck!
My fellow Cypherpunks, The following is interesting.
http://www.albany.net/~rwcecot/iraap/Quinn/phoenix1.htm
find string: Connie Chung
A good example of the tremendous degree to which the major news media organizations are called to heel is seen in the facts surrounding the two year hiatus in the professional career of CBS broadcaster Connie Chung, who had the misfortune to have ended up being paired with Dan Rather several years ago.
On a live call-in TV talk show some two years ago, Ms. Chung responded with a bit too much candor to a question as to what actually gets reported publicly by the major news media, given the great number of stories and items which come from the numerous sources of "raw" information. How are
stories which get the attention of the media chosen and by whom?
Connie Chung replied to the effect that it wasn't too hard to decide what stories get aired--they just checked with Washington D.C. to see what had been cleared for publication by the government.
As a result of her being foolish enough to tell the truth in what was
just a naive, probably unintentional and inadvertent slip, within no more than a few hours Ms. Chung was out of a job and remained blacklisted in
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 10:20:10PM -0600, Gary Jeffers wrote: the likely the
industry for a good two years, only resurfacing in 1998 with a position at ABC--sufficiently chastened, some no doubt believe, to allow her to grace the public airwaves once again.
Yours Truly, Gary Jeffers
BEAT STATE!!!
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