{"id":7306,"date":"2009-07-16T13:54:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T20:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7306"},"modified":"2009-07-16T14:30:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T21:30:31","slug":"nbc-white-house-reporter-chuck-todd-torture-investigation-little-more-than-cable-catnip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7306","title":{"rendered":"NBC White House ‘Reporter’ Chuck Todd: Torture Investigation Little More Than Cable ‘News Catnip’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week I wrote<\/a> about the ABC “News” chuckleheads, and their laff riot over the floated idea of a torture probe, “on the verge of”<\/a> being announced by AG Eric Holder. They laughed and pooh-poohed the high-larious suggestion on last Sunday’s Stephanopoulous<\/i>.<\/p>\n

And now MSNBC offers another egregious example of corporate media failure — in this case, again, “inside the beltway” corporate media failure — in their “coverage” of such a possible investigation\/prosecution. Glenn Greenwald is, as usual, a must read here<\/a> beginning this way on Wednesday…<\/p>\n

NBC’s Chuck Todd — who, remember, is billed as a reporter covering the White House, not a pundit expressing opinions — was on MSNBC’s Morning Joe<\/i> on Tuesday discussing reports that Eric Holder is likely to appoint a prosecutor to investigate Bush torture crimes. Needless to say, everyone agreed without question that investigations were a ridiculous distraction from what really matters and would be terribly unfair. <\/div>\n

As I say, Greenwald’s analysis of how far off the rails such insider “journalism” has now gone; how far from what the nation’s Founders intended; how completely and utterly out of touch these guys actually seem to be from the public, is a must-read. So please do<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week I wrote about the ABC “News” chuckleheads, and their laff riot over the floated idea of a torture probe, “on the verge of” being announced by AG Eric Holder. They laughed and pooh-poohed the high-larious suggestion on last Sunday’s Stephanopoulous. And now MSNBC offers another egregious example of corporate media failure — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,405,55,223,64,404,188,33,23,366],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-bush-legacy","category-cia","category-dept-of-justice","category-dick-cheney","category-eric-holder","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-msnbc","category-nbc","category-torture","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7306"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}