April 20, 2006

Jason Leopold on Talk Nation Radio

Talk Nation Radio: Jason Leopold "16 Words Were False" story and his book. Bush State of the Union lie plus "News Junkie"
Thursday, April 20, 2006

Listen here.

This 29:01 minute broadcast starts out with a discussion of what amounts to a smoking memo, the State Dept. to the CIA --Niger docs fakes 16 days before the 2003 State of the Union Address. We talk about the media, how the blogosphere is keeping track of the Plame affair and related conspiracies, and then Jason Leopold's new book, News Junkie available at Amazon.com or jasonleopold.com by advanced order.

This is a must read according to journalist Greg Palast. In it Leopold discusses his life story, his work as a journalist and the many changes to his life before, during and after drug and alcohol addiction and his marriage to the woman who helped him to recover. We learn of behind the scenes events at major media outlets as the Enron scandal was first breaking, and we see the distinct impact of our deteriorating mainstream press on journalists trying to break major stories. (This week's Talk Nation Radio features part two of an interview with Jason Leopold. It does not require part one for understanding content.)

"Sixteen days before President Bush's January 28, 2003, State of the Union address in which he said that the US learned from British intelligence that Iraq had attempted to acquire uranium from Africa - an explosive claim that helped pave the way to war - the State Department told the CIA that the intelligence the uranium claims were based upon were forgeries, according to a newly declassified State Department memo."

Talk Nation Radio is a weekly program featuring interviews with journalists, scholars, and activists. It is produced in the studios of Pacifica Affiliate Radio Station WHUS at the University of Connecticut, in Storrs,Connecticut.

Transcripts are available at talknation.org

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