More Proof Emerges that “Meet the Press” is Pure Propaganda

This brief article by Lee Fang in The Nation is extremely valuable.  While I wrote a lengthy piece on the outlandish hypocrisy laden in government lapdog David Gregory’s criticism of Glenn Greenwald, Mr. Fang exposes another manner in which the corporatist-state media fools the public. They do so by having guests on with vested financial interests making false proclamations, while all the while failing to disclose who they really are and who pays their bills.  We learn that:

On Meet the Press yesterday, shortly after host host David Gregory stunned many by suggesting that The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald should face prosecution, a roundtable of pundits discussed the unfolding Edward Snowden story. Mike Murphy, one of the Meet the Press pundits, mocked Snowden’s attempt to seek asylum, calling him a “so-called whistleblower,” and charging that “it’s never been easier in human history to be a whistleblower” through official means.

There are problems here with both the messenger and the message.

First, the message. In fact, the Obama administration has one of the worst records of any president’s in terms of prosecuting leaks and whistleblowers. Moreover, Snowden had virtually no legal protections as a member of an intelligence agency contractor (Booz Allen Hamilton).

But Murphy himself has a stake in this debate that arguably ought to have been disclosed. Though Murphy was introduced only as a “Republican strategist,” he is also the founding partner of Navigators Global, a lobbying firm that represents one of the NSA’s largest contractors. Disclosures show that Navigators Global represents Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) on issues before Congress.

Recall I covered CSC and others in my recent article:  Meet the Contractors: America’s “Digital Blackwater”

For at least a decade, CSC has won major contracts from the National Security Agency (NSA). Murphy’s firm has lobbied on behalf of CSC for bills that would expand the NSA’s reach, including the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act or CISPA, which passed the House of Representatives earlier this year. As the Center for Democracy and Technology noted, the “legislation is being billed as an expansion of a collaboration between the National Security Agency (NSA) and major ISPs dubbed the Defense Industrial Base Pilot.”

So while the mainstream media spends all of its energy trying to figure out whether or not Glenn Greenwald squashed a bug when he was five years old, Meet the Press has absolutely no problem parading around a defense contractor whore without disclosing who he really is…and that is a huge part of our bigger problem.

Full article here.

In Liberty,
Michael Krieger

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5 thoughts on “More Proof Emerges that “Meet the Press” is Pure Propaganda”

  1. Interesting, especially considering you have people in MSM saying that journalists are supposed to be “neutral.” But what about entire networks?

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