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Dan Rather, former CBS News icon, was on an MSNBC cable show hosted by Tucker Carlson. Carlson's blabberifics regularly pontificate on the coming presidential race. Tucker hold his own rigid views, issue spins that barely qualify as news.
With decades a seasoned journalist, Rather was hesitant. He prefers genuine reporting. He did not
appear comfortable engaging in Tucker's political blab. Rather plaintively
remarked, "There's something wrong with the press, with our coverage. We aren't
asking the right questions." Those weren't Rather's exact words, but that was
the gist.
I am a candidate for
president. My unique understanding of this Fourth Estate prob
limb is reason to elect
me. Dan Rather is correct, though he was unable to articulate what troubles both
him and us, because we all feel it. There is something amiss with our Fourth Estate. Let me explain the how and why, driving Dan's chagrin, what he was unable to put his finger on, and part of my plan, as president, to make things
right.
Once upon a time, on the
eve of The Pentagon Papers publication, President Nixon, angry, and fit to be
tied about the issue, summoned FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to the White House.
Their conversation was not recorded. They quietly met in the Old Executive
Office Building, actually in Nixon's preferred office, a sidewalk from the
White House, where year round Nixon kept the fireplace burning.
The two had drinks. Nixon
wanted to know what Hoover could do to stop future news events like the
Pentagon Papers publication from ever reoccurring. Did Hoover have any plans
for FBI to infiltrate newspapers with "their own people," getting onto
editorial boards, to counter editorialists attacking the governmentŐs policies.
Hoover explained he was
100% with Nixon on that issue, and had an on-going campus operation with that
in mind. To quell the growing anti-war movement on campus, Hoover explained,
FBI had "their own people"- provocateurs smashing windows and trashing
furniture.
This was a necessity, to
convince reluctant university presidents that having new student governments,
to replace the open voting polity governments' open mikes, used for non-stop
anti-war rallies, was the only play for these hands off University presidents
to make, to protect the millions of federal dollars coming their way.
In light of the
revolutionary anti-government activities by Marxist Leninist students, the
Vietnam war their excuse, new Student (government) Associations, not easily infiltrated by
Marxists, more appealing to conservative student leaders instead of draft
dodging long hairs, was a better idea for university student governance.
Bureaucracy would save the furniture.
At the same time, as
Hoover explained to Nixon, FBI was getting into school newspapers with their
own people, the plan: get them admitted to grad schools for training as
professional journalists. Upon graduation, they would be hired, their goal,
greased with stipends on the side, the editorial boards of the daily papers. It
was a long-term domestic counter intelligence program. There wasn't going to be
any Pentagon Papers repeats. This press dilution would be a blessing for all
our future presidents.
One of Hoover's targets
was The Spectrum, "the official newspaper of the students"
at State University of New York at Buffalo. There may've been other papers
Hoover targeted, but The Spectrum at UB is the paper I'm most familiar with.
Originally, anyone could join The Spectrum and write for it. At the end of the
year the editors and staff held an annual meeting where all who worked on the
paper had a voice and anyone, student member, or community person, could stand
for editor-in-chief.
You wrote a letter to the
editor, stating which editorship you thought you were made for. You stood
before the full staff, and stated your case. Then you and whoever else sought
the job went out in the hall. The staff discussed the candidates, and voted by
paper ballot.
In 1970, at the height of
student unrest, The Spectrum was top shelf, an award winning
college newspaper. Coincidentally, Jack Anderson's Washington Merry Go
Round was in the habit of taking on The Spectrum's graduating
editors-in-chiefs for internships, another reason for J. Edgar Hoover, who
hated Jack Anderson, to go after that paper.
Against this backdrop, a
pre-law student, Dennis Arnold, managed to be voted in as the editor-in-chief,
and Dennis decided, because the paper was so strong, he would "take the paper
private." It operated in student space, in the student union, but under his
tutelage the paper became a private educational purposes corporation, with
by-laws created by the editor-in-chief. The corporate by-laws, governing The
Spectrum, weren't voted for, or ratified; they were simply installed.
The By-laws began with
chicken and the egg: "The business and affairs of The Spectrum shall be
conducted by its members." "Membership Criteria: The membership shall consist
of the editorial board, as designed and appointed by the chairman." You choose
me, editor-in-chief. I'll appoint you sports editor and raise your stipend. The
staff was cut out.
Within a few years The
Spectrum was an unread, moribund waste of stew dent time, reflecting the editor's, not the school's
issues. At first, the paper, coasting on its award winning reputation, was a
stepping-stone into grad schools for its journalists. The editors used The
Spectrum for building a resume´, and installed their chosen protege´ to carry on their
policies. As fast as the writing talent dribbled down, so went the overall quality
ofThe Spectrum. There wasn't any room for advancement
unless you were the editor's friend. Enthusiastic incoming writers were always
giving up and moving on.
Years later the corporate
by-laws were brought to a university adminis traitor's attention. The Vice-president for
University Affairs, Ronald Stein stated, "I don't need to see the by-laws. I'm
sure they're very closed, very insular. FBI also has a copy of the by-laws in
their files." Stein brought up FBI's involve, not this journalist.
What business would FBI
have in the internal structure of any college newspaper, except to paper a path
into grad school for their own?
Against this backdrop an
undergraduate FBI hire, Jay Rosen, sauntered in the door, and talked his way
into joining the paper, an adminis traitor having pre-set that, tit-for-tat, with the editor. Rosen was
instantly an op-ed columnist, appointed the managing editor soon after, and
then, at The Spectrum annual board meeting, reluctantly voted for by the
outgoing editorial board, editor-in-chief.
Before Rosen arrived there
had been a referendum on forming a new student government, for course credit
instead of money, sponsored by this journalist. The Spectrum editor-in-chief
named it The Leverendum. Ask Al Gore whether that measure passed or failed. The
vote was delayed until exam week, without voting machines, held in one
location, and run by the very people whose financial powers were being voted
down.
As managing editor, out of
the blue, without an interview, Rosen wrote what he claimed was a historical
piece mocking the government for course credit concept, and labeled this author
"the anathematic Lev", and, "the madman Lev." The editor-in-chief when this
took place, into heavy pot smoking all day long, didn't read the article in advance.
Rosen's article was over
the line, not only what he wrote about the "campus prophet," a man inspired
with the "mull tie ling well," Television Scripture,
written down to perform on world wide television for all man kind, but the
manner Rosen used to demolish the government for course credit concept. When
this happened it seemed Rosen was seeking to make points with the lay out group
who actually determined the paper's look during that moribund period. At least
one of that lay out gang, it can and will be shown, was an FBI contract
employee. His wife today, sits on the editorial board of The
Washington Post.
Years later I realized
that professor Jay Rosen, today a Department Chair in Journal ism at NYU was
FBI connected from the beginning. It was with FBI's guidance he wrote the
scurrilous article, attacking and trashing the idea of an Undergraduate House
of Representatives, empowered to investigate the whole university, the
undergraduate grading based on the log books they kept up as Secretary's, not
how the student Members voted on any issue.
The federal government, specifically the FBI will
totally stonewall any request put, under the Freedom of Information Act, but
proving Rosen's initial and ongoing FBI connect is a simple investigative
matter.
Upon election, it's all cominmg out in the wash. I plan Undergraduate
Houses of Representatives for every school in USA, or freeze their school's
research dollars. The student bodies at large will have an elective course,
over-seeing their millions of stew dent activities dollars. The undergrads will practice expository writing,
every Member Recording Secretary, their grades based on the quality of their
writing, as Members of the Undergraduate House of Representatives. It was a
good idea thirty years ago and in light of the Bush presidency, better today, to
inspire a fresh generation of genuine leaders to serve instead of feed off the
public trough.
There is also a flaw in
every college newspaper charter that needs repair, that for another op-ed
piece. Hint: The student newspapers are funded by student fees, but we don't
know who publishes these college papers. The mastheads don't show a publisher's
chair.
Rosen's editorship at The
Spectrum was three decades ago. There are professors at that university who yet
remember Rosen the most vicious editor in the school's whole newspaper history!
Rosen used the thrice-weekly paper to destroy the people he hated. He dismissed
the black students who wanted to become journalists. With a wave of his arm he
threw them out the news room door by the colors of their skin.
Fascists in our newsrooms
want this essay trashed, kept from the light of day, to protect their high
priest professor. But were publishers to
seek a book on truth telling for journalists, one could take a dozen of
Rosen-edited papers, reexamine the issues and people whose lives he mean
spiritedly distorted, get at the truth behind, and reprint both. It would be
the end all standard text on ethics for journalists.
Rosen's university education began with a lackluster incomplete year at a university in Pennsylvania,
followed by a year at Buffalo State Teachers College. From there, he
transferred into SUNYAB, but not without FBI string pulling, as the courses
he'd taken, and his grades at "Buff State," didn't support or merit the move up. Rosen's
undergraduate transcript, at least 60%, is "independent study," violating the
university regulations. Over a flap at Harvard, in 1978, CIA head Stansfield
Turner remarked, "We are above the rules and regulations of these institutions
of higher learning." For J. Edgar Hoover's counter intelligence modus, Rosen's
bogus undergraduate work was par.
All of Rosen's sixty four
hours plus of independent study were awarded to him by one graduate student.
That suspicious fellow, Stew Dent Stirutsky,
was exposed to the English Department as being an FBI plant. Upon that exposureŽ,
Jay Rosen's grad student mentor was immediately graduated. With an unreadable
Masters thesis, gibberish in a year when there weren't any university positions
for shoddy composition teachers, Stirutsky was placed at a university in
Louisiana where he's remained, his reward a dead end spot, hot sauced ever
since.
In one of his books Rosen
paints himself an innocent altruistic fellow who interned at a newspaper after
graduation, didn't take to becoming a reporter, deciding instead to resign and
go on to graduate school, to study the craft of journal ism. Rosen did not
resign his "internship" as a reporter. He'd moved into a full time job at the Buffalo
Courier Express, and was let go for submitting an application to be a
foreign correspondent, to the Courier Express, packed with lies, to Box X at
the newspaper, for what Rosen thought was a help wanted ad, placed in The
Courier Express classifieds by some other newspaper.
The Courier Express
editors read his job application, responding to "Wanted Foreign
Correspondent," that packed with lies and misleading misstatements. They called
him into the editorial office and on the spot, terminated his career at the paper. Rosen,
kaput, went down to New York City.
FBI pulled more strings to
get him admitted to NYU. Strings had been pulled to get him admitted to SUNYAB,
and strings onto the school newspaper as a columnist. FBI sent him to the
Courier Express where he flunked. More strings were pulled. He was admitted to
grad school at NYU, stayed there, and was awarded a Doctorate, in Journal ism.
He has remained at NYU ever since. Always power seeking, he rose to become
Department Chair. But without the FBI puppeteering, professor Jay Rosen could
not have been admitted to NYU in the first place.
One cannot matriculate at
a graduate school on the strength of an empty undergraduate transcript. His
writing is awful. His Press Think blog isn't writing! Rosen talks into his
computer, and uses a voice recognition program that turns speech into text.
Rosen hardly changes a word. Upon an investigation of NYU records, there will
also be a glowing positive letter on file from one other professor besides the
FBI grad student. It would be my pleasure to write that famous, intelligence
connected professor's name down, place it in an envelope, and do a Johnny
Carson Karnack, meeting with editors and publishers. NYU needed something on
file to cover Rosen's empty transcript.
It was clear to the
university Community when Jay Rosen became editor-in-chief of The Spectrum
power was his motivator. Power has driven Rosen's career. FBI stroked him early
on that he would be an "architect," above the writers, a high priest,
decider-in-chief.
This is serious, I
believe, close to Jason Bourne. Rosen, reading this, is on the telephone
demanding extreme prejudice. Bureaucracies are vicious; his career is at stake.
I'm ready to hold a conference call with every editor-in-chief and newspaper
publisher nationwide. During that call I will gladly fill every blank, additional
proof positive to back every word - cold historical facts easily uncovered by a
vigorous free press. I will also expose one other, an editorial board member at
a very prominent newspaper, referred to above, and also easily proven, an FBI
traveler. Each has contributed to corrupting our free press.
Publishers and editors can
examine the careers of those people professor Rosen recommended to your papers.
I suspect they all tend to the bureaucratic, and seek roles as editors, their
preference politics. An examination of their immediate blood relatives will
lead you back to the intelligence aristocracy, the Pentagon, the Defense
Department, the majority of writers Rosen recommended. The Fourth Estate ought to clear its own air.
I will show you the way.
Upon my election these prevaricators will be under the president's wing, in the
False Witness Protection Program, foreign correspondents. This is what Dan
Rather couldn't get his finger on. The FBI, using Jay Rosen, for one, has
stuffed our Fourth Estate First Amendment Avenue with their own,
following the Pentagon papers publication, to dilute our news reportage, and
confuse realities.
These essays have gone to
syndicates, for distribution, and via fax to more than 100 newspapers. The
essays are for sale. I will officiate my campaign, on the ballot in New
Hampshire when I will officially announce I am seeking the nomination of both
political parties. In the event your newspaper is willing to have me to their
offices, to answer any question, explain my views on any issue facing our
nation, and there is a meeting including editorial board and staff, you will
easily identify your likely FBI in the wood pile, by their eyes, as they will
be unable to disguise their outrage at my presence.
Michael Stephen levinson
Candidate for president of United States
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