One more pilot episode of FAIR TV to share. Please let us know what you think.
Peter Hart
Peter Hart was the activist director of FAIR for 15 years, as well as the co-host of FAIR's radio show CounterSpin. He is now the senior field communications officer for Food & Water Watch.
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Thank you for covering NBC’s ridiculous olympic coverage of Grenada! I hope you continue to do these video episodes.
Thanks for this great video blog. I visit your site daily and have found it to be my premiere source for debunking the pablum purveyed by most media outlets.
While it’s been great to finally put faces to the voices I’ve listened to on CounterSpin, I would suggest limiting it to opening and closing face shots. I’d rather see more clips from the TV shows or images of the print work than to watch you guys reading copy. When you do an interview, that’s when to have the cameras on the talking heads.
Most disgusting of all is Shieffer, whose most illustrious predecessor, Edward R. Murrow, courageously took on Joe McCarthy. Surely Shieffer knows the difference between McCarthyism and Sen. Reid’s idiotic – but in the context of political campaigning, meaningless – comment . How low has so-called journalism gotten? Someone should ask Shieffer.
Wonderful to see FAIR moving into more multimedia. I realize FAIR-TV is still in its beta stages, but I’d like the program to feature analysis, commentary, and interviews not appearing in other vehicles, e.g. Extra! and Counterspin. And aping the grammar of film via greater use of cutting, juxtaposition of graphics with anchors, variation in shot length, etc. would increase dynamism and therefore greater engage your viewers. Anita Sarkeesian does a great job with presentation in her Feminist Frequency videos, and looking to YouTube entertainers like the Gregory Brothers can’t hurt either.
Keep up the excellent work!
Looking for fairness in the mainstream media is like looking for sanity in in congress.
What a treat to see Steve Reynolds in person. Nice contrast between him and the suits as well as his very well researched, well spoken and accurate reporting. I guess the policy parrots believe, like some of the posters on this site, that history can be changed with the ease of changing a teleprompter. I wrote a comment about the Grenada thing on another post, which mirrored Steve’s assessment of Grenada. It was a total farce, so much so that the “rescued” medical students asked why they were being rescued and from what? And let’s not forget that the operation was almost totally botched because somebody didn’t check the weather and at least 20 marines were lost at sea. Let’s hear it for the lame stream media.
Elizabeth…I hope you are awake.I listened to Steve and went into a Coma.Reminds me of Democracy now.More grey haired droners.Droning on about this or that liberal canard they wish to overturn,till it fits there template.
Anyway I had a friend who landed on Grenada as an officer with the 82nd.Seems those invisible ,non existent Cuban soldiers(as your side would have us believe)put up a hell of a fight.Also he told me they(the 82nd) loaded massive ammunition stockpiles(soviet)for disposal after the conflict.It took weeks.Enough to arm tens of thousands of men.Top line stuff.Again your side would have us believe that never happened either.Also….i spoke to someone who I know who was there at the time in med school.He says(and I quote)”we were scared shitless they were gonna come for us at any time.”The people of Grenada still celebrate the day as a day of national independence.Seems in your mind everybody that was there,from boots on the ground… To the people who live there.Every leader at the time….every intel officer had it all wrong. Yet Russian freedom of information admits in documents now that the island was being armed with Soviet arms, and Cuban soldiers for a destabilization plan aimed at American Caribbean interests.Go figure.Seems they dont know what the hell they are talking bout either.So yet again a group of lib journalists prove EVERYBODY was wrong.That God for there input right?
I’d like to concur with Bartholemew Barker in his criticism only because this is such vital media programming. The graphic shot of the Grenada airstrip is powerful. I realize it would probably take a gargantuan effort to replace the face time with more graphics, but the psychology of the hair and face interferred a little bit with my efforts to focus on the substance of the report – which is really appreciated. The reporting I mean.
How low could so-called journalism go? In Chicago at CBS-TV we have one Jay Levine, whose every word is subconsciously vetted by his handlers at City Hall. It reminds me about what Nietzsche wrote, in another context about the “new idol,” the state: “they vomit their bile and call it a newspaper. Bow to it and it will give you anything.” Levine’s job title might just as well be changed to hanger-on and booster for the Rahm Emanuel regime. Levine gets plenty of face time between the cadillac and toothpaste commercials.