Why is The Murrow Project needed?
Viewed in a historical perspective that began during the last two years of the G.W. Bush administration, the national broadcast news media began a systematic hyper critical attack on the waning years of the Bush Administration, where he was vilified far beyond fairness. With overwhelming exposure the Big Three Broadcast Networks embarked on an overt effort to discredit all Republican Presidential candidates as well as Democrat party challengers to Barack Obama. During the primary election process it was obvious to many that the three major network broadcasters were intent on blocking any credible challenge to Barack Obama’s ascension to the White House. The systematic discrediting of challengers to Barack Obama had risen to the point of drowning out and attacking all legitimate inquiry as to Barack Obama’s suitability, eligibility, and accomplishments which could recommend him for the position of President of the United States. To the informed viewer, by the final weeks of the primary season the entire broadcast industry was operating as unison to discredit Hillary Clinton. After the convention all the networks pounced on Sarah Palin with character assignation and ridicule. The network attacks on the women running for high public office was shamelessly personal, irrespective of their superior experience to that of the novel but novice candidate Barack Obama.
The three networks, CBS, ABC and NBC purposefully, in seemingly concert, steered public opinion using the full weight and force of the public airways influence the election outcomes by use of character assassination, propaganda and questionable “opinion as news” journalism. These networks were widely observed burying inside their broadcast news programming propaganda on a scale un witnessed in America since the Second World War. This opinion making effort was frequently presented as news, but was in fact really shaded and manufactured presentations representing opinions of journalists and producers and network ownership executives. Up to this point the American public had never seen such misuse of public airways for political purposes. The experience was so novel and the trust of the networks was so ingrained in the American experience, manipulation on such a grand scale was beyond the publics belief as to be blind sided by the efforts. Which was perhaps the design of the networks and their on screen personalities. Such abuse was simply not believed to have been possible in the United States. The consequence of media mis direction, and bandwagon propaganda techniques perpetrated by the network broadcasters was to create an election so jaundiced by network generated prejudice, that a fair election process was impossible.
The FCC regulated broadcast networks had been subverted internally, at the cost of the public trust, to a private propaganda machine devoted to a single political party and its candidates. That posture persists deep into the President’s first year of office and the 111th. Congress. The networks have yet to publically examine their abusive acts, nor challenged their own complicity in manipulating the American people. The time has come for these entities to be called to account for their acts. And that is the formative purpose for the The Murrow Project
The Subversive Danger Still Lurks in the Big Three!
As knowledgeable observers recoiled in disbelief over media driven bias within the 2008 election process. The public watched in growing astonishment the opening days of the new Administration. Incredibly, broadcasters avoided examining acts of the new administration and the 111th.th Congress which would have appalled management of earlier news networks. The vacuum left by the corruption of network news services, demanded the idea of a organized counter movement. The Murrow Project idea developed to correct network news reporting and editorial policies as an imperitive offset the disparity of the President’s now official endorsement of the corrupt media’s support. The public now see’s that the regulated use by the Big Three are official extensions of the Administration’s propaganda system. Outside intervention from the public may be the only force capable of extricating broadcast media from the grip of total subversion against the public interest.
In response to issues such as: the incredible scope of nationalization of industries; featherbedding for unions in the GM take over and the early drafts of health care reforms; inclusion of mountains of money included as political paybacks to political supporters inside the 2009 stimulus legislation; the grabbing of the Census away from the Commerce Department and contracted to a former client of President Obama ACORN/SEIU (ACORN was a client of President Obama and is currentkly under indictment for voter registration fraud in several States) the network news simply ignored these events. The network media glossing over the President’s repeated attempts to railroad massive legislation without Congressional or public comment is viewed as new criminal neglect of the public interest.
The networks near giddy support of the Adminstration has bordered on malfeasance given the regulatory requirements of the FCC. The media’s abandonment of their duty to act in the public interest and trust created a ground swell of distrust amongst the People both against government but the heretofore trusted watchdog media. All these travesties passing by the Networks news desks without comment or note rang as a sentinel warning of the widespread corruption in network media management, production and on air personalities.
This obvious blindness and disinterest to issues of true concern to the public has not just disaffected the public, but has called journalists motives into question and independence of the networks suspect.
The image of a patronizing network posturing to grovel for favor from President Obama, the eager acceptance of his appointees and their credentials, the network news disinterest in the impact of The Presidents efforts to nationalize major sectors of the U.S. economy brought in to focus a picture of media’s willing complicity in promoting the Presidents efforts to spread socialistic policies throughout the fabric of the US economy and daily life. National Broadcast news networks, has fallen away from fierce and passionate purveyors of truth and accuracy in news reporting, to their being duped in to a political propaganda tool of a manipulative and disingenuous regime. Apparently the broadcast media is happy with their prospects in such a circumstance, as they have yet to add any meaningful dissent to acts that would have caused cries of outraged had they been perpetrated by previous administrations.
The People see the broadcasters pressing the nation in to socialism as full partners in the assault on the U.S . Constitution by the Socialist Progressive Democrat party. The time has now come for the People to focus on stopping these media institutions ability to damage the public and their efforts to support the erosion of free enterprise system and our constitutional freedoms.
The Solution:
To that end , The Murrow Project effort’s are dedicated to accomplish either: reform, shutter, or achieve the confiscation of these network media properties to be placed in to non political public controlled trust free of political and corporate control. In any event the national broadcast networks, must not be allowed to work for the destruction of American values and the U.S. Constitution one more day than is necessary to bring about one of the three stated acceptable solutions. The Murrow Project’s reason for existence is clear and stated. The organization is a focus for thousands if not millions of citizens working in collaborative efforts to bring market forces and regulatory enforcement to bear on broadcast media run wild and outside the public purpose. The Project is free by charter to use any lawful means to affect the stated goals.
If the goals and objectives of The Murrow Project are consistent with your own views, we encourage you to join in support and to support the project’s exercise in persuasive force.
