{"id":9358,"date":"2011-12-15T10:48:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T17:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=9358"},"modified":"2011-12-15T10:48:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T17:48:58","slug":"abe-rosenthal-lewis-powell-tony-colho-ralph-naders-three-enemies-from-the-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2011\/12\/15\/abe-rosenthal-lewis-powell-tony-colho-ralph-naders-three-enemies-from-the-1970s\/","title":{"rendered":"Abe Rosenthal, Lewis Powell, Tony Coelho: Ralph Nader’s three enemies from the 1970s"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Chris Hedges, Death of the Liberal Class<\/p>\n

The pressure of the meetings by the corporations like General Motors, the oil companies, and the drug companies with the editorial people, andd probably with the publishers, coincided with the emergence of the most destructive force to the citizen movement mise-en-scene:\u00c2\u00a0 Abe Rosenthal<\/strong>, the editor of the New York Times, Rosenthal was a Right-winger from Canada who hated Communism, came here, and hated Progressivism.\u00c2\u00a0 The Times was not doing well at the time.\u00c2\u00a0 Rosenthal was commissioned to expand the suburban sections, which required a lot of advertising.\u00c2\u00a0 He was very receptive to the entreaties of corporations, and he did not like me.\u00c2\u00a0 I would give material to Jack Morris in the Washington bureau, and it would not get in the paper<\/em>.
\nRosenthal, who banned social critics such as Chomsky from being quoted in the paper, decreed that no story built around Nader’s research could be published unless there was a corporate resp0onse.\u00c2\u00a0 Corporations, informed at Rosenthal’s dictate, refused to comment on Nader’s research.\u00c2\u00a0 This effectively killed the stories.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/a>
\nLewis Powell<\/strong>, who was the general counsel to the US Chamber of Commerce, wrote a memo in Aguust 1971 that expressed corporate concern over Nader’s work […]<\/em><\/p>\n

Moreover, much of the media-for varying motives and in varying degrees-either voluntarily accords unique publicity to these “attackers,” or at least allows them to exploit the media for their purposes. This is especially true of television, which now plays such a predominant role in shaping the thinking, attitudes and emotions of our people.
\nOne of the bewildering paradoxes of our time is the extent to which the enterprise system tolerates, if not participates in, its own destruction<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

[…]
\nThe press in the 1980s would say “Why should we cover you?\u00c2\u00a0 “Who is your base in Congress?”\u00c2\u00a0 I used to be known as someone who could trigger a Congressional hearing pretty fast in the House and Senate.\u00c2\u00a0 They started looking toward the neoliberals and neocons and the deregulation mania.\u00c2\u00a0 We put out two reports on the benefits of regulation and they, too, disappeared.\u00c2\u00a0 They did not get covered at all.\u00c2\u00a0 This was about the same time Tony Coelho<\/strong> taught the Democrats, starting in 1979 when he was head of the House Campaign Finance Committee, to start raising big time money from corporate interests.\u00c2\u00a0 And they did.\u00c2\u00a0 It had a magical effect. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Chris Hedges, Death of the Liberal Class The pressure of the meetings by the corporations like General Motors, the oil companies, and the drug companies with the editorial people, andd probably with the publishers, coincided with the emergence of the most destructive force to the citizen movement mise-en-scene:\u00c2\u00a0 Abe Rosenthal, the editor of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9360,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9358\/revisions\/9360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}