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February 21, 2007

Gordon: Amy Goodman Is Not Well Informed

by AltHippo @ 10:54 am. Filed under Uncategorized

The period between Bush’s “election” in 2000 and the Fall of 2003, when all of the WMD claims started to come undone was when I gave up on the Main Stream Media. It was obvious to anyone who had ears to hear that the NYT, the Washington Post, Time Magazine, and all of the usual prominent fixtures in our fair city had become courtiers in the Palais de Versailles.

Though streaming internet video was still a bit rough around the edges it ws during this same period that I began to watch Democracy Now. Amy Goodman struck me as a figure out of a distopian Science Fiction film, the last person to speak the truth. Even the way that the scratchy broadcast originated from a fire station in Manhattan could be a symbolic detail out of Bradbury or Vonnegut.

These days I listen to DemocracyNow on podcast. I missed this interview with Michael Gordon, author of the infamous aluminum tubes story for the NYT. But fortunately, Glenn Greenwald didn’t:

AMY GOODMAN: For example, David Albright, who is the U.N. weapons inspector, and I am quoting from Michael Massing’s letter to the editor, responding to your objection to his piece in the New York Review of Books. Albright writing that the Times’ September 13 story, which you also co-authored with Judith Miller, was heavily slanted to the C.I.A.’s position, and the views of the other side were trivialized. Albright says – and this is the man who contacted the Times. Let me just quote for our audience, this is Albright saying, “An administration official was quoted as saying that the best technical experts and nuclear scientists at laboratories like Oak Ridge supported the C.I.A. assessment. These inaccuracies made their way into the story, despite several discussions that I had with Miller on the day before the story appeared, some well into the night. In the end, nobody was quoted questioning the C.I.A.’s position, as I would have expected. He says.

MICHAEL GORDON: Are you going to let me talk now?

AMY GOODMAN: If you could respond to that, please.

MICHAEL GORDON: Yeah. You’re not well-informed on this issue, because – I don’t have any, you know, criticism of you as an individual, but you’re not very well informed on this, because if you were well-informed on this – I’m friends with David Albright. I think David Albright’s an upstanding person who is doing very good work. I’m actually not Judy Miller, so I’m not the person he had the conversation with, but David certainly took the view early on, and he deserves a lot of credit for this, that the aluminum tubes were not intended for nuclear purposes. That’s absolutely true, and as a person outside government, he did that analysis.

The real problem with the journalism that backed up the administration going into the Iraq invasion, so we learn from Michael Gordon, is that Amy Goodman wasn’t well-informed enough.

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