Weather It Makes A Difference...
only time will tell.All-Star Lineup Of Journalists To Champion Sunshine Week ‘07
Tom Brokaw, Ben Bradlee and Judy Woodruff will make the case for open government in public service announcements produced by the Radio & Television News Directors Foundation for Sunshine Week, March 11-17.
The 30-second messages will be distributed to television and radio stations across the country to highlight the importance of protecting public access to government information. RTNDF’s participation is supported by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
“The hallmarks of a great democracy include government transparency and accountability,” said RTNDF president Barbara Cochran. “Sunshine Week gives us an opportunity to engage the public in advocating for openness and resisting restrictions on government information. News organizations serve as watchdogs on behalf of the public and during Sunshine Week television and radio stations can let the public know about important stories that would go untold if access is blocked.”
The audio PSAs are now available to be downloaded through the RTNDA web site.
Freedom of Information and U.S. Journalism Change are serious issues that need serious solutions. Al, any room left on your plate?
On a side note: I ran into Judy Woodruff a few weeks back in the take-out line at Chicken Out in Spring Valley. We chatted a bit - she is a both charming and gracious, dedicated to truth and lots of side orders. ;)
Labels: Ben Bradlee, Public Service
posted by Patrick J. Fitzgerald at 3/01/2007
50 Comments:
"Sunshine Week gives us an opportunity to engage the public in advocating for openness and resisting restrictions on government information."
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Yes, this is very important! The public has the right to government information!
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Time to clean up the reputation of Jornalism. Miller, Cooper, Novak and others have made Journalist liers and employees of the White House crime team. Let's hope the Journalist remember the great Edward R. Murrow and follow his example again.
That is why people like me are turning to the internet and blogsites because as Jackie said that we need to cleanup the reputation of journalism. We are in the age of information. But the media needs to embrace the blogging and respect bloggers and a new wave of journalism. Too many journalists are still dinosaurs. But, the world of journalism today has become sensastionism and thw world of brought and paid for by the WH. One thing that I am glad for is Tom Brokaw sticking up for Tim Russert when Russert was mentioned in Fitz's press conference in Oct. 2005. Brokaw knew the world of journalism had been tarnished. Journalists and reporters need to lead by example as the late Edward R. Morrow, Walter Cronkite, and others have or had done.
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The Justice Bloggers wish inmate number 28882-016 a bid farewell. We will miss you Ney. LOL!
The email:
hello,
i will not have access to e mail so this will be my last for awhile. i wanted to drop you a short e mail to give you my address:
robert ney
inmate number 28882-016
fci morgantown
446 greenbag road
route 857
morgantown, west virginia 26501
i also wanted to thank you for all you have done for me and my family. your kind words, thoughts, and prayers throughout the last six months have helped all of us quite a lot.
someone asked me the other day, if i wish i had never ran for office. i answered that i am glad that i did. nothing can erase the wonderful memories, thoughts, constituents, and changes that we, working together with the republicans and democrats, have been able to do. working to bring jobs to the district, helping constituents with issues, and trying to change law to help people has been the greatest memory ever.
would i change things if i could, sure. am i sorry for things that happened, absolutely, and i will pay the price. but, i am grateful for many good people in our office that helped the district and grateful for a free nation, the men and women that protect it, and a wonderful constituency in the district that i used to serve.
my family and i have lost everything on an economical basis, house, health care, possesions, but so have other people, people in the district, many, have lost all. and yes , that is painful for anyone that has gone through it, but, i am so fortunate to have my wife and children, we are so rich with family, friends like you, loved ones that are there for us, and full of hope for a good future.
the darkest days are not ahead, i have gained a higher power, the god of my understanding, is with all of us and that allows me to view tomorrow, although as a day of loss of freedom, as a day of enlightenment and of life to come.
as garth brooks said in his song the dance:
and now i'm glad i didn't know
the way it all would end, the way it all would go
our lives are better left to chance,
i could have missed the pain,
but i'd have had to miss, the dance
my family and my life is starting new, thanks for being part of it.
god bless,
bob ney
Thanks for the memories, Bob! (Biloxi blows his nose)
I wonder if I will be able to grow my nails back and kick this nail biting- I miss scratching my own itches;/
http://www.counterpunch.com/morris07272005.html
"The evidence of Rice's complicity is increasingly damning as it gathers over a six-year twisting chronology of the Nigerien uranium-Wilson-Plame affair, particularly when set beside what we also know very well about the inside operations of the NSC and Rice's unique closeness to Bush, her tight grip on her staff, and the power and reach that went with it all. What follows isn't simple. These machinations in government never are, especially in foreign policy. But follow the bouncing ball of Rice's deceptions, folly, fraud and culpability. Slowly, relentlessly, despite the evidence, the hoax of the Iraq-Niger uranium emerges as a central thread in the fabricated justification for war, and thus in the President's, Rice's, and the regime's inseparable credibility. The discrediting of Wilson, in which the outing his CIA wife is irresistible, becomes as imperative for Rice as for Rove and Libby, Bush and Cheney. And when that moment comes, she has the unique authority, and is in a position, to do the deed. Motive, means, opportunity-in the classic terms of prosecution, Rice had them all."
THE MEDIA IS COMPLICIT IN PERPETUATING LIES PERIOD.
THE MEDIA IS COMPLICIT IN
DISTRIBUTION OF DISINFORMATION.
THE MEDIA'S TALKING HEADS ARE
NOW IN STEP WITH THEIR CORPORATE
HANDLERS' BOTTOM LINE.
MONEY.
GREED SUPERCEDES THE MEDIA'S DUTY TO OBJECTIVELY INFORM THE CITIZENRY.
THIS IS WHY PEOPLE LIKE
US
HAVE FLOCKED TO INTERNET.
S.P. FITZGERALD:PERHAPS A GRAND JURY SHOULD WITH REGARD TO THE MEDIA
PROBE MATTERS OF OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE,DERELICTION OF DUTY,AND OF COURSE R.I.C.O.
IF A PRODUCER ISN'T ON THE CORPORATE TAKE THE PRODUCER IS MOST LIKELY AN INTELLIGENCE AGENT
WITH SOME OTHER AGENDA.EVER HEARD
OF
JEFF GANNON?
PAT RIOT
SPB is getting personal emails from Bob Ney?
Me thinks that the jury is taking their own sweet time. God knows once this is over they have to go back to their boring lives.
Why, I do believe our esteemed prosecutor is a Sunshine Seekr. ;)
"SPB is getting personal emails from Bob Ney?"
Ha Ha! Yeah right! No brokeback in me. I certainly not getting a care package nor a ham for his welcome in prison. I am sure you will miss him, Anon. lol
p.s. no IM to Ney neither.
Sunshine, Sunlight... excellent disinfectant.. either way. And, much fun in the summer time.
How about sending Ney some roadkill in prison?
Make him feel at home...
Q & A after verdict:
Randall Samborn: Yes, you in the back.
Reporter Chuck Crackinstuff: There are rumors that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald wears pink panties and that those panties help him to win his cases. Rumors in Chicago are flying that those panties are called the 'Elliot Ness panties'. Is that true, Randall?
Randall Samborn: No comment. Next!
Oh it's the Pink Panties again!
Pink panties rule! lmao
I just heard that Judge has ordered lawyers to his chambers at 4:30 pm. I don't know any more.
Is this on FDL? I was on a call. This is the only comment that I saw:
Update: The flood in the cafeteria is coming from the bathrooms next door.
Media room erupts in bad toilet puns.
Is that going to be an investigation too? LOL! Anyway, heading to FDL. Thanks for the scoop, Quzi.
I don't get it. Why would someone think Fitzie wears pink underwear has anyone noticed he's a man and they don't carry those sizes in men's sizes. Is this a personal joke or what? Just don't talk about Randall in this matter. He's so busy he has to protect the Fitz team from the sharks. I'll stay out of this joke because I just don't get it.
CNN - tv
Got it, Quzi!
FDL just post it:
*BREAKING* There is a note from the jury the content of which we don't know yet. We also heard that the judge is going to address the jury at 4:30 pm today in the courtroom, and it is assumed he will dismiss them for the day. We don't know whether the two things are related or not, but Marcy will be liveblogging it as it happens. — JH
Cross your fingers that that there is a verdict!
Upon going to Niger Plame may have
stumbled on something of an international liability with some
former and current international government contractors that deal in activities that include weapons,narcotics,human traffic,and contraband material,i.e.nuclear black market.
I'm of the belief now that Joe Wilson's anti Iraq policy stance
is the cover story for something
a lot bigger.Were dealing in part with the remnents of cold war intelligence networks which from time to time employ the services of
of undesirables.With the end of the cold war mission and the end of the associated contracts some of these networks continue to operate independently.If the current and former black ops
list were ever made public it would certianly hit the fan.
from FDL - Parachutec (sp) says that court staff saying it has do with a scheduling issue -- so it may be no big deal if this is true.
I am hoping they have a verdict! Come on give us the Truth, we can handle it! :)
Breaking:
Panty Raid at the White House!
I can't take this crap anymore. Can't they apply some logic and get this show on the road...
FDL server dumped me! Anyone know what happened??
I can't believe someone is asking for a dictionary!!!
You know Fitzie has called this an intelligent jury, but I've seen some Phd's that have absolutely no common sense and some that have the poorest decision-making skills I've ever seen.
Let's hope they don't hang this case!
Quick view of FDL seems the jurors still have the old family values Bush tossed out the window 6 years ago. Ya I know Teddy V. Ruxpin and Fitzie are mad but they were once kids and needed their parents to help them too. Libby can wait kids can't and shouldn't. Guilty will come soon remember all good things come to those who wait. Libby lied for the Dickster no matter of time will change that. Sure glad I'm not a juror I use the dictionary for everything as Fitz loves to use words I don't understand.
Later
Can't get on FDL either. Will try again.
"Breaking:
Panty Raid at the White House"
You only wish for that Anon. LOL!
Sunshine week is good thing;-)
Ditto QZ! No deadlocks surely-I am a little surprised it has taken them this long. They did seem to be a smart jury but I wonder what the heck they are doing in there!
Over and Out until later;-D
PS- FDL was hard for me to load too...they must be swamped since RAW dropped the ball-again!
Breaking:
Dick Cheney's panties are missing!
Size: XXXXL
Color: Black
Judge is letting jurors out tomorrow at 2 pm so one or more of the jurors can go to teacher's conference at school for their child/children. The other business was -- they asked if they could have a dictionary. That's about it, folks.
“The hallmarks of a great democracy include government transparency and accountability,” said RTNDF president Barbara Cochran.
Well, we're halfway there!
:-D
On a side note: I ran into Judy Woodruff a few weeks back in the take-out line at Chicken Out in Spring Valley. We chatted a bit - she is a both charming and gracious, dedicated to truth
YAY! Go Judy Woodruff!
A dictionary? Oh, man.. I hope one of jurors won't ask for a DVD of Law and Order! Looks like it will be short day for the jurors to deliberate tomorrow.
Quzi:
Thanks! Well, I guess FDL got a taste of crashing their server! They need more bandwidth! LOL
I still think Judge Reggie should have sequestered this jury -- I hope we don't regret that decision of his.
outta here JBs...
I think anything that changes should be typed in 'neon' so that you can see what has been changed.
I've heard congresspeople say "we don't actually read them before we sign them" because it would take way too long.
Like us, when we click on "I agree" after reading boilerplate
messages, I think they're called.
With regard to the bills, I'm sure it's no accident that they're way too long for the congressmen and women to read.
jackie said...
Sure glad I'm not a juror I use the dictionary for everything as Fitz loves to use words I don't understand.
Between those smarties over at firedoglake and some of the stuff I read on this site, I've had to consult a dictionary lots of times.
From Jane at fdl:
Pach and I just got back from the courtroom. The jury is having a high old time together. They were to a one grinning from ear to ear, giggling, having the time of their lives. Pach noted that none of them looked at Libby, and they did not seem like a group of people who were in disharmony — there wasn't one who was hanging back, nobody was pissed at somebody who was intractable. They seemed to be thoroughly enjoying the process.
I love to hear this!
And I'm glad they're having fun.
Man, if they get along so well, I wish they would come together and hand down a verdict!
Quzi:
That was me @ 5:34, I'm having a problem signing into blogger as S-Q.
S-Q
Jan the sign that the jurors are getting along with one another is a good sign that they will agree. That's more likely why Teddy V. Ruxpin had his head down. Not a good sign for Libby, he might have wished he kept the lady that was kicked out. Remember Jan when you are a juror on one knows the other. Once people work together and form unity it brings understanding and respect which leads to a group decision.
Ok, Jackie... I know you are right. I'll chill :/
One of the comments at FDL said that the jurors might be getting addicted to the case like the rest of us (besides wanting to do a good job). You know they had to figure out how the WH and media worked together to B.S. the masses. Once you start thinking about it and then looking at the big picture, a thought pops up, that leads to another...then the floodgates open. Thank goodness, they don't have access to the internet.
FDL also had in another post about the 'mask' of Libby (and his wife in their photo ops) slipping and the strain showing on his face.
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