Comments on: Siegelman blackout http://susiemadrak.com/2008/02/25/10/46/siegelman-blackout/ Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:25:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: xinunus http://susiemadrak.com/2008/02/25/10/46/siegelman-blackout/#comment-137682 xinunus Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:43:50 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/02/25/10/46/siegelman-blackout/#comment-137682 Did you know that WHNT-TV19 was less than a year ago owned by The NEW YORK TIMES? The company that owns the station now bought it from the NYT's. Do you not find it ironic that the NYT's is doing a hit piece on a station it owned less than a year ago? Would they have done this piece on this station if it still owned it? I doubt it very seriously. Also did you know that the general manager of WHNT-TV19, Stan Pylant, is a registered Democrat and he became the station manager less than 3 months ago? These stories about a conspiracy are a bunch of none-sense. This is just another reason to waste tax payer dollars. Do we not have better things to spend our hard earned money on in this country? Did you know that WHNT-TV19 was less than a year ago owned by The NEW YORK TIMES? The company that owns the station now bought it from the NYT’s. Do you not find it ironic that the NYT’s is doing a hit piece on a station it owned less than a year ago? Would they have done this piece on this station if it still owned it? I doubt it very seriously. Also did you know that the general manager of WHNT-TV19, Stan Pylant, is a registered Democrat and he became the station manager less than 3 months ago? These stories about a conspiracy are a bunch of none-sense. This is just another reason to waste tax payer dollars. Do we not have better things to spend our hard earned money on in this country?

]]> By: Izquierdo http://susiemadrak.com/2008/02/25/10/46/siegelman-blackout/#comment-137191 Izquierdo Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:58:41 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/02/25/10/46/siegelman-blackout/#comment-137191 Maxie, how about airing it during the next 60 Minutes broadcast, at the normal Sunday evening time? Twice. Maxie, how about airing it during the next 60 Minutes broadcast, at the normal Sunday evening time?
Twice.

]]> By: Maxie http://susiemadrak.com/2008/02/25/10/46/siegelman-blackout/#comment-137183 Maxie Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:10:40 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/02/25/10/46/siegelman-blackout/#comment-137183 I am an employee at WHNT. We are trying our best to dispell any misconception that there may be about Sunday night's problems with60 Minutes. Here is a statement that our Station Manager/News Director sent to someone who e-mailed us about this very subject. I hope this clears everything up. Sunday night at the worst possible moment, we had a technical failure of a piece of equipment that allows us to receive feeds from CBS. It happened just as the 60 Minutes segment on former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman was about to air. The result was that the 60 Minutes segment did not air initially. We joined it in progress with about 5 minutes remaining. Initially, we thought the problem was on CBS' end. That was a logical assumption on our part as we had problems just 24 hours prior during a CBS televised basketball game. Upon further investigation, WHNT learned that the problem was on our end at the station. WHNT engineers responded as quickly as possible to diagnose the problem and were able to restore the feed, as I said, with a few minutes left in the Siegelman segment. As you might imagine with a story of such intense local interest, our phone lines and emails were bombarded with complaints and rightly so. That's why we requested and were granted permission from CBS to re-air the segment in its entirety on Sunday night during our late news, NewsChannel 19 at 10pm. We also directed viewers to the link on WHNT.com where they could view the entire segment on streaming video. Still, many people indicated to us that they missed it at 10pm because they did not get word that it would re-air. So, once again we asked and were granted permission from CBS to again re-air the "Prosecution of Don Siegelman" segment. It did indeed air again Monday on NewsChannel 19 at 6pm. CBS bent over backwards to help us through this very regrettable situation. We have received hundreds of emails and phone calls from viewers who accused us of purposely sabotaging the broadcast for political reasons. I can understand how people might think that was the case. But, I assure everyone that it is patently false. If we were conspiring to blackout this story from the public, we wouldn't have promoted it heavily in our newscasts in the days preceding. We apologize to everyone for the interruption. I assure you there was no intent whatsoever to keep anyone from seeing the broadcast. I am an employee at WHNT. We are trying our best to dispell any misconception that there may be about Sunday night’s problems with60 Minutes. Here is a statement that our Station Manager/News Director sent to someone who e-mailed us about this very subject. I hope this clears everything up.

Sunday night at the worst possible moment, we had a technical failure of a piece of equipment that allows us to receive feeds from CBS. It happened just as the 60 Minutes segment on former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman was about to air. The result was that the 60 Minutes segment did not air initially. We joined it in progress with about 5 minutes remaining.

Initially, we thought the problem was on CBS’ end. That was a logical assumption on our part as we had problems just 24 hours prior during a CBS televised basketball game. Upon further investigation, WHNT learned that the problem was on our end at the station. WHNT engineers responded as quickly as possible to
diagnose the problem and were able to restore the feed, as I said, with a few minutes left in the Siegelman segment.

As you might imagine with a story of such intense local interest, our phone lines and emails were bombarded with complaints and rightly so. That’s why we requested and were granted permission from CBS to re-air the segment in its entirety on Sunday night during our late news, NewsChannel 19 at 10pm. We also directed
viewers to the link on WHNT.com where they could view the entire segment on streaming video.

Still, many people indicated to us that they missed it at 10pm because they did not get word that it would re-air. So, once again we asked and were granted permission from CBS to again re-air the “Prosecution of Don Siegelman” segment. It did indeed air again Monday on NewsChannel 19 at 6pm. CBS bent over backwards to help us through this very regrettable situation.

We have received hundreds of emails and phone calls from viewers who accused us of purposely sabotaging the broadcast for political reasons. I can understand how people might think that was the case. But, I assure everyone that it is patently false. If we were conspiring to blackout this story from the public, we wouldn’t
have promoted it heavily in our newscasts in the days preceding.

We apologize to everyone for the interruption. I assure you there was no intent whatsoever to keep anyone from seeing the broadcast.

]]> By: Ron http://susiemadrak.com/2008/02/25/10/46/siegelman-blackout/#comment-137145 Ron Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:07:03 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/02/25/10/46/siegelman-blackout/#comment-137145 I'm becoming more convinced each day that corporate media are the true terrorists. I am at the point of complete hatred for these obvious propagandists because of their complicity in the destruction of American democracy. I’m becoming more convinced each day that corporate media are the true terrorists. I am at the point of complete hatred for these obvious propagandists because of their complicity in the destruction of American democracy.

]]> By: Izquierdo http://susiemadrak.com/2008/02/25/10/46/siegelman-blackout/#comment-137138 Izquierdo Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:29:40 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/02/25/10/46/siegelman-blackout/#comment-137138 Thank God for media deregulation. Thank God for media deregulation.

]]> By: T Andress http://susiemadrak.com/2008/02/25/10/46/siegelman-blackout/#comment-137135 T Andress Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:24:46 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/02/25/10/46/siegelman-blackout/#comment-137135 “60 Minutes Done A Great Job” Bush’s elete group of corrupt GOP’ers are scared to death that Don Siegelman may be on the streets before the election. Slick Bob so nervous that he is combing his hair and spraying his mouth and under arms every Five minutes hoping that John McCain will name him as his running mate. If the new president is a Democrat he/she will probally appoint new U.S. Attorneys in Alabama. Riley along with most of the top GOP operatives could get Federal charges filed against them for taking millions of dollars from Michael Scanlon and Jack Abramoff. The money was used to defeat Siegelman’s Education Lottery and to run Riley’s election campaigns “60 Minutes Done A Great Job”

Bush’s elete group of corrupt GOP’ers are scared to death that Don Siegelman may be on the streets before the election. Slick Bob so nervous that he is combing his hair and spraying his mouth and under arms every Five minutes hoping that John McCain will name him as his running mate. If the new president is a Democrat he/she will probally appoint new U.S. Attorneys in Alabama. Riley along with most of the top GOP operatives could get Federal charges filed against them for taking millions of dollars from Michael Scanlon and Jack Abramoff. The money was used to defeat Siegelman’s Education Lottery and to run Riley’s election campaigns

]]> By: Ten Bears http://susiemadrak.com/2008/02/25/10/46/siegelman-blackout/#comment-137134 Ten Bears Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:07:18 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/02/25/10/46/siegelman-blackout/#comment-137134 Fascism is an extreme right-wing ideology which embraces nationalism as the transcendent value of society. The rise of Fascism relies upon the manipulation of populist sentiment in times of national crisis. Based on fundamentalist revolutionary ideas, Fascism defines itself through intense xenophobia, militarism, and supremacist ideals. Although secular in nature, Fascism's emphasis on mythic beliefs such as divine mandates, racial imperatives, and violent struggle places highly concentrated power in the hands of a self-selected elite from whom all authority flows to lesser elites, such as law enforcement, intellectuals, and the media. Fascism would be more accurately named Corporatism, for it is th wedding of The Corporation and The State. Il Duce Benito Mussolini Fascism is an extreme right-wing ideology which embraces nationalism as the transcendent value of society. The rise of Fascism relies upon the manipulation of populist sentiment in times of national crisis. Based on fundamentalist revolutionary ideas, Fascism defines itself through intense xenophobia, militarism, and supremacist ideals. Although secular in nature, Fascism’s emphasis on mythic beliefs such as divine mandates, racial imperatives, and violent struggle places highly concentrated power in the hands of a self-selected elite from whom all authority flows to lesser elites, such as law enforcement, intellectuals, and the media.

Fascism would be more accurately named Corporatism, for it is th wedding of The Corporation and The State.

Il Duce Benito Mussolini

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