Media Watch
Gates and Gutless Wonders
Staff
| Revision History | ||
|---|---|---|
| • December 1991-January 1992 | Newspaper: Funded by Syracuse University students. | |
| The Alternative Orange: Vol. 1, No. 3 (pp. 10) | ||
| • September 3, 2000 | Webpage:  . | |
| DocBook XML (DocBk XML V3.1.3) from original. | ||
Untold News from the Gates Hearings:
We're gutless. We're spineless. There’s no joy in saying this, but beginning sometime in the 1980’s, the American press by and large somehow began to operate on the theory that the first order of business was to be popular with the person, or organization, or institution that you cover. | ||
| -- Dan Rather, quoted in the Boston Herald , 9/18/91 | ||
If they care about it, they know where and how to find it. | ||
| -- Bret Marcus, WNBC (New York) news director, refuting criticism of his station’s not covering the council races in the city. | ||
The picture that emerged from the [hearings] was of a nominee for Director of Central Intelligence who is both contrite and arrogant; meticulously organized but forgetful of crucial facts. | ||
| -- Elaine Scoliono, Times , 10/6/91 [Wasn’t there a time when being “forgetful of crucial facts” was referred to as lying?] | ||
A review of his testimony suggests that he was both truthful and evasive. | ||
| -- Scoliono, 10/3/91 | ||
The man who first sponsored Gates for Agency employment was then-deputy directory Ray S. Cline, who once told Carl Bernstein that “one journalist is worth 20 agents” and called the US news media the “only unfettered espionage agency in this country." | ||
| -- Laura Flanders and Martin Lee, Extra! , 11/12/91 | ||
The Gates hearings were explosive. It’s just that some explosions are allowed to be heard more loudly that others. | ||
| -- David MacMichael, who resigned from the CIA in 1984 | ||
