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Basset released this today:
The quote below is taken from a plaque donated to the National Press Club in 1962 by the Columbia School of Journalism on the occasion of the school’s 50th anniversary. It says a great deal in a few words and has never been truer than it is today.
The reporters who sit in the West Wing press briefing room week in and week out have more access to the ruling administration of the United States than all the world’s other reporters combined. They and their counterparts covering the Departments of State and Defense have an enormous responsibility to protect the public’s vested interests in good governance and right policy. Failure to stand for the public’s right to know brings down the nation, the people and the press – together.
Indeed it is all too clear the United States is in decline on multiple fronts, and the media have not done their job. Nothing demonstrates this more conclusively than the failure of the political press to appropriately engage the explosion into the world in the 1940’s of an unidentified aerial phenomenon. As years passed and evidence amassed confirming a non-terrestrial, non-human basis for this phenomenon, the White House press corps was mute. As government witness after witness came forward – military officers, air traffic controllers, policemen, astronauts, pilots, intelligence personnel – the White House press corps was mute.
When other nations issued confirmatory reports such the French COMETA study in 2000, released thousands of classified files into the public domain, cooperated with indigenous UFO research organizations, the U. S. administrations did nothing and the White House press corps was silent.
Then high level political figures such as former Clinton adviser and chief of staff John Podesta called for the release of all UFO documents in government files – twice at the National Press Club – the White House press corps asked nothing. When former congressman, ambassador to the United Nations, Secretary of Energy, presidential candidate and Governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, wrote that the Air Force explanation for the July 1947 Roswell, NM events was unsatisfactory and all relevant government files relating to those events should be released, the White House press corps asked nothing.
Most unsettling of all, a billionaire friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Laurance Rockefeller, made a three-year effort (1993-1996) to convince President Clinton to release all UFO documents in government files, grant amnesty to government personnel who came forward with information and end the truth embargo regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. Thirteen years after the end of that failed initiative no member of the White House press corps has ever posed a single question about that initiative to any of the powerful political figures who knew about it and/or were involved – Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, Leon Panetta, Albert Gore, Jr., Bill Richardson, Dr. John Gibbons, and others.
Right now letters, faxes and emails are pouring into the White House Correspondents’ Association calling on the press corps to rediscover the Fourth Estate’s proper role and challenge the now 62-year misrepresentation of reality by the State. It is not necessary, though welcomed, for the entire corps to rise up together – only that a few find the courage to place the public’s right to know ahead of their job and their privileged position in that room.
Respectfully,
Stephen Bassett
Executive Director
The quote below is taken from a plaque donated to the National Press Club in 1962 by the Columbia School of Journalism on the occasion of the school’s 50th anniversary. It says a great deal in a few words and has never been truer than it is today.
The reporters who sit in the West Wing press briefing room week in and week out have more access to the ruling administration of the United States than all the world’s other reporters combined. They and their counterparts covering the Departments of State and Defense have an enormous responsibility to protect the public’s vested interests in good governance and right policy. Failure to stand for the public’s right to know brings down the nation, the people and the press – together.
Indeed it is all too clear the United States is in decline on multiple fronts, and the media have not done their job. Nothing demonstrates this more conclusively than the failure of the political press to appropriately engage the explosion into the world in the 1940’s of an unidentified aerial phenomenon. As years passed and evidence amassed confirming a non-terrestrial, non-human basis for this phenomenon, the White House press corps was mute. As government witness after witness came forward – military officers, air traffic controllers, policemen, astronauts, pilots, intelligence personnel – the White House press corps was mute.
When other nations issued confirmatory reports such the French COMETA study in 2000, released thousands of classified files into the public domain, cooperated with indigenous UFO research organizations, the U. S. administrations did nothing and the White House press corps was silent.
Then high level political figures such as former Clinton adviser and chief of staff John Podesta called for the release of all UFO documents in government files – twice at the National Press Club – the White House press corps asked nothing. When former congressman, ambassador to the United Nations, Secretary of Energy, presidential candidate and Governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, wrote that the Air Force explanation for the July 1947 Roswell, NM events was unsatisfactory and all relevant government files relating to those events should be released, the White House press corps asked nothing.
Most unsettling of all, a billionaire friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Laurance Rockefeller, made a three-year effort (1993-1996) to convince President Clinton to release all UFO documents in government files, grant amnesty to government personnel who came forward with information and end the truth embargo regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. Thirteen years after the end of that failed initiative no member of the White House press corps has ever posed a single question about that initiative to any of the powerful political figures who knew about it and/or were involved – Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, Leon Panetta, Albert Gore, Jr., Bill Richardson, Dr. John Gibbons, and others.
Right now letters, faxes and emails are pouring into the White House Correspondents’ Association calling on the press corps to rediscover the Fourth Estate’s proper role and challenge the now 62-year misrepresentation of reality by the State. It is not necessary, though welcomed, for the entire corps to rise up together – only that a few find the courage to place the public’s right to know ahead of their job and their privileged position in that room.
Respectfully,
Stephen Bassett
Executive Director
