Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press
Edited by Kristina Borjesson, Foreword by Gore Vidal



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This is a 10-page summary of the fascinating accounts of 18 award-winning journalists from the book Into the Buzzsaw. All of these writers were prevented by corporate media ownership from reporting major, incredibly revealing news. Some were even fired or laid off. These journalists have won numerous awards, including several Emmys and a Pulitzer Award. Help us to create a more responsible media and a better world. Spread this news across the land.


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Jane Akre spent 20 years as a network and local TV reporter for news operations throughout the country. Recently, she and her husband, investigative reporter Steve Wilson, were awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for their struggle with the story told in this chapter.



By February 1997 our story was ready to air. It attempted to answer some troubling questions: Why had Monsanto sued two small dairies to prevent them from labeling their milk as coming from cows not injected with [growth hormone rBGH]? Why had two Canadian health regulators claimed that their jobs were threatened—and then said Monsanto offered them a bribe to give fast-track approval to the drug? Why did Florida supermarkets break their much-publicized promise that milk in the dairy case would not come from hormone-treated cows “until it gained widespread acceptance” among the wary public? And why was the US the only major industrialized nation to approve the use of this controversial genetically engineered hormone? P. 40, 41

Media cover up? It isnt a myth anymore.........

was it ever a myth? I always thought it was the biggest open secret there was. Kinda nice to see it's actually ADMITTED for a change.

The mainstream media is mostly guilty of the lie of omission. Try and figure out what they're not covering. That's the thing to watch.