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Ken Starr's Media Minions (Sid 'Swamp Thing' Blumenthal explains the VRWC-Book Excerpt #2)
Salon 'Will Write for Food'.com ^ | May 6, 2003 | Sidney Blumenthal

Posted on 05/06/2003 7:24:24 AM PDT by ewing

Kenneth Starr's 'illegal' leaks were holding virtually the entire Washington press corps in his thrall.

At the top of the independent council's heirarchy of status were his favored reporters and producers: Michael Isikoff at Newsweek, correspondant Jackie Judd and her producer Chris Vlasto at ABC News and Susan Schmidt of the Washington Post.

Below them, others often scrambled for access. Starr granted it immediately to the networks and newsweeklies, but the big regional papers had to scrape by on the leavings.

The New York Times was second best in his eyes to the Post. Cutouts emerged--conservative lawyers close to the investigation--who fed scandal hungry reporters.

A survey conducted by the Committee of Concerned Journalists on the reporting done between January 21-27 revealed that of the 1,565 statements and allegations repeated by major television programs, newspapers, and magazines, only 1 percent were based on two named sources, 41 percent had no claim of factual reporting at all, and 40 percent were derived from anonymous single sources.

Matt Drudge was simply a trendsetter.

(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: New York
KEYWORDS: blumie; salon; starr; vrwc
This one promises to drop like a rock on Amazon..
1 posted on 05/06/2003 7:24:25 AM PDT by ewing
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To: ewing
This is all ready a lie...the court investigated and found that Starr DID NOT leak, nor did his office. They thought that some of the leaks came from Clinton so HE COULD SAY THEY CAME FROM STARR and make him look bad! That whole group is headed to he!!
2 posted on 05/06/2003 7:36:57 AM PDT by Jewels1091
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To: ewing
The execrable Sid was questioning critics' patriotism 8 years ago.
3 posted on 05/06/2003 8:07:03 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Jewels1091
Free 18 hour day pass for viewing an cookies enabled ad (no email required) http://www.salon.com/premium/daypass/
4 posted on 05/06/2003 8:07:36 AM PDT by ewing
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To: ewing
Just a quick random grab of links ( I'm busy right now! )

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5 posted on 05/06/2003 8:08:30 AM PDT by backhoe (The 1990's will be forever remembered as "The Decade of Fraud(s)..."( Oslo, dot-bombs, clintons...))
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To: DManA
Just from the excepts it feels like the Clintons have been ghostwriting it with him..
6 posted on 05/06/2003 8:09:00 AM PDT by ewing
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To: backhoe
Current Amazon.com sales rank -141 (down from mid 50's a couple of days ago)
7 posted on 05/06/2003 8:11:01 AM PDT by ewing
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To: ewing
"Just from the excepts it feels like the Clintons have been ghostwriting it with him"

Yah...it's a real page turner, isn't it. I thought Salon had finally gone down the sewer. Wonder how much they paid to excerpt this trash...
8 posted on 05/06/2003 8:24:54 AM PDT by cloud8
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To: ewing
Besides the White House, it's public knowledge that one source for the Dem media's (Pete Yost of the AP) attacks on Starr was Judge Cudahy on the three judge panel that oversaw Starr's investigation.

Judge Cudahy, former chairman of the Wisconsin State Democratic Party, was only caught once illegally (but "inadvertently") feeding Yost; AFAIK Yost never answered under oath if Cudahy had fed him other stories.

9 posted on 05/06/2003 8:25:59 AM PDT by mrsmith
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To: cloud8
No one else would excerpt the book, I believe..
10 posted on 05/06/2003 8:31:40 AM PDT by ewing
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To: ewing
Good ol' Grassy Knoll, still pounding out conspiracy fantasies between shock treatments.

Is it just me, or does Sid bear an uncanny resemblance to Martin Short's 'Nathan Thurm' character?


11 posted on 05/06/2003 8:43:47 AM PDT by IowaHawk
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To: ewing
"No one else would excerpt the book, I believe"

Well Sidney couldn't have made much off the deal. Salon last traded at $0.05 a share on losses of $0.42 a share.

http://www.pinksheets.com/quote/quote.jsp?symbol=SALN
12 posted on 05/06/2003 8:48:36 AM PDT by cloud8
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To: ewing
Kenneth Starr's 'illegal' leaks were holding virtually the entire Washington press corps in his thrall.

LOL! LOL! LOL!

Good ol' Sid BlewHill'sballs - always good for a laugh, especially when his Nazi masters are out of power. ;-)

13 posted on 05/06/2003 12:43:58 PM PDT by an amused spectator
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To: Jewels1091
Bingo!! Sooner rather than later would be nice!
14 posted on 05/06/2003 1:29:07 PM PDT by CyberAnt ( America - You Are The Greatest!!)
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