{"id":261,"date":"2023-01-08T07:39:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T12:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=261"},"modified":"2023-01-08T07:39:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T12:39:34","slug":"abc-producer-stages-january-6th-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"ABC PRODUCER STAGES JANUARY 6TH COMMITTEE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If the public meetings of the January 6th<\/sup> Committee looked more like a tightly scripted television serial than a traditional legislative hearing, that is because it was.  It was nothing less than a political propaganda performance crafted by a television producer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an unprecedented move, the January 6th<\/sup> Committee hired a chap named James Goldston \u2013 the former president of ABC Television News and producer for \u201cGood Morning America\u201d and \u201cNightline.\u201d  (Another example of the disturbingly close ties between media and the political world).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to an unnamed Committee Source, Goldston was hired \u201cto bring its news-gathering and storytelling skills to create a dramatic nightly presentation about the attack on the Capitol.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an article in The Wrap, Brandon Katz writes that his source said that \u201cpreviously unseen footage of the attack, produced packages and other tools, will be leveraged to make the hearings compelling, rather than just a series of witnesses.\u201d  In other words, crafted propaganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea of turning a traditional legislative hearing into a documentary was consistent with the Committee\u2019s mission to prosecute the case against Trump.  What Goldston did for the Committee was to connect the Committee\u2019s goal with a format designed to enhance its salesmanship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The selection of material, evidence, and testimony parceled out to the public was crafted by Goldston for maximum impact.  Each public session of the Committee was prearranged as a docudrama \u2013 a concocted reality show.  Information presented or withheld for ascending impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In hiring Goldston, the Committee resorted to the basic tools of propaganda to give its preconceived narrative greater public impact.  Unlike most congressional hearings, this one was carried by the networks as if it was regularly scheduled programming \u2013 the latest installment in hyperbolic insurrection narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the media reviews of the January 6th<\/sup>\u00a0Committee television mini-series sound like movie hype \u2013 \u201cdramatic\u201d \u2026 \u201cblockbuster\u201d \u2026 \u201csensational\u201d \u2026 \u201cgripping\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The January 6th<\/sup> Committee broke a lot of important traditions \u2013 Pelosi first banning members appointed by the GOP \u2026 then appointing Republican false flaggers \u2026 mandating the one-sided Committee with a specific outcome \u2014 and overtly utilizing media propaganda techniques and tools to create a public production.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from the events of January 6, 2021 \u2013 or the merits or accusations of criminality \u2014 the Committee has been a corruption of the legislative process in its brutal partisanship.  Turning the legislative hearing process into a stark partisan infomercial is bound to have repercussions in the future.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is one thing to televise a hearing, but quite another when it is scripted and rehearsed \u2014 and the legislators turned into actors literally playing assigned parts from the prepared script.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only thing missing was the \u201cProduced and directed by James Goldston\u201d at the conclusion of each performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, there \u2018tis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOURCE: https:\/\/punchingbagpost.com\/abc-producer-stages-january-6th-committee\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If the public meetings of the January 6th Committee looked more like a tightly scripted television serial than a traditional legislative hearing, that is because it was.  It was nothing less than a political propaganda performance crafted by a television producer. In an unprecedented move, the January 6th Committee hired a chap named James Goldston \u2013 the former president of ABC Television News and producer for \u201cGood Morning America\u201d and \u201cNightline.\u201d  (Another example of the disturbingly close ties between media and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}