Sunday, June 09, 2013

Update: The Surveillance State on the 3 Big Networks Sunday Programs

I was curious if the three original television networks CBS, NBC, and ABC, would follow up with coverage of this past week's bombshell revelations of the Prism Surveillance program?

I looked in their respective sites for the Sunday Morning programs and this is what I found: 

CBS



Open: This is Face the Nation, June 9

Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., on sexual assault in the military, the NSA phone records revelation and new allegations of abuse within the IRS with Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, a roundtable with David Sanger, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Joseph Nye and CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan. Finally, a look back at the journey of Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich.

Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50148547n

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NBC

MTP will not air Sun., June 9th, due to NBC’s Coverage of the French Open 

Source: http://www.today.com/id/3032608/

 *MTP = Meet the Press

Out to lunch at a time when government intrusive surveillance demands journalists to do their investigations and report the NEWS, not sports!


NBC as in 30 Rock, as in Rockefeller...

Huntley-Brinkley where have you gone?  Fishin'?


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ABC

Below you can find some of the notable comments made Sunday on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” Our powerhouse roundtable guests included ABC News’ George Will; ABC News ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd; Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn.; New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman; and Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren.


Roundtable I: Privacy vs. Security




Sourcehttp://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/06/paul-krugman-government-tilting-towards-authoritarian-surveillance-state/

Glenn Greenwald, the reporter for The Guardian who broke stories last week on the National Security Agency’s phone and internet surveillance programs, blasted calls for the prosecution of his sources for leaking classified information, saying they “deserve our praise and gratitude and not imprisonment and prosecution.”

Glenn Greenwald on 'This Week'



To see the whole ABC This Week program:

Episode 23 47:34  NR

This Week 06/09: Glenn Greenwald, Mark Udall on NSA Surveillance Program

Guests: George Will, Matthew Dowd, Paul Krugman, Greta Van Susteren, Keith Ellison

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/watch/this-week/SH559082/VDKA0_rcfb16q2/this-week-0609-glenn-greenwald-mark-udall-on-nsa-surveillance-program

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