Thursday, June 6, 2013

Will the public ever be safe from her?

Sharon von Zwieten was one of the leaders of the propaganda of the Bush/Cheney White House following September 11, 2001. She lead the nation down a path of fear. She praised Christianity while victimizing the idea Muslims are deep and dark and was not to be trusted.

After her obvious shaming after the truth about Iraq came out, she went to India to runs some FOX sports station, then to Mexico to manipulate the truth and now she is back in the USA to start all over again.

Sharon von Zwieten is a professional propagandist. She doesn't care about the truth or fact, she produces MESSAGING so long as there is money in it.

WPIX News Names von Zwieten Sr. Exec. Producer (click here)


TVNewsCheck


Tribune Broadcasting’s New York CW affiliate WPIX has named Sharon van Zwieten senior executive producer for news. In this newly created position, van Zwieten will oversee content for all the station’s newscasts, on all platforms. She joins the station on June 10.
Van Zwieten has held executive positions in news and sports production, in program development and in journalism in both the United States and Asia. She was previously the senior executive producer, news for Univision Deportes in Miami where she created and launched eight programs including Univision Deportes Extra, the flagship show of the network.

PIX11 NAMES SHARON VAN ZWIETEN SENIOR EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

NEWS EXECUTIVE JOINS THE STATION JUNE 10
New York—June 6, 2013 – PIX11, Tribune Broadcasting’s New York CW affiliate, has named Sharon van Zwieten Senior Executive Producer for PIX11 News. In this newly created position, van Zwieten will oversee content for all PIX11 newscasts, on all platforms. She joins the station on June 10.
van Zwieten has held executive positions in news and sports production, in program development and in journalism in both the US and Asia. She was previously the Senior Executive Producer, News for Univision Deportes in Miami where she created and launched eight programs including Univision Deportes Extra, the flagship show of the network. Prior to her post at Univision, she was the Senior Executive Producer, News for ESPN Star Sports in Singapore where she launched ESPNews, a 24-hour pan-regional cable network, SportsCenter Malaysiaand Score Tonight, a pan-Asian sports show.
She has also held executive level producer positions at CNN (including NewsNight with Aaron Brown, American Morning with Paula Zahn and Daybreak, which she created and launched,)ABC News (ABC News Live,) and CNBC Asia.
van Zwieten has also produced news locally in Chicago (WBBM-TV and WFLD-TV,) Seattle (KING-TV,) Kalamazoo (WWMT-TV) and Dubuque (KDUB-TV.)  She began her career in journalism as a reporter for the Michigan Daily newspaper....

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Aaron Brown interview with Salon


WEDNESDAY, APR 17, 2013 06:31 PM EDT

The former CNN anchor tells Salon about the "tremendous pressure" in the "inherently conservative" net's newsroom (click here)


After CNN was forced to walk back John King’s reporting that an arrest had been made in connection to the Boston Marathon bombing, Aaron Brown (an anchor at CNN until 2005, including on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001) was sympathetic.
“No one who does this in a breaking news environment has not had this happen. You feel that you’ve let down the organization and the audience. It is a very difficult moment.”
Brown, who is now a professor at Arizona State University, told Salon that his students had asked about the King reporting throughout the day. “I told them it never would have happened this badly on my watch,” he joked, before turning serious. “The role of the anchor is to say: This is true. And these things are very chaotic. [CNN should have indicated] ‘What we can say for sure is that the case moved significantly today.” Brown suggested that King and NBC News’ Pete Williams were using sources from entirely different spheres, with Williams operating with federal sources in Washington, while “my guess is that [King] was getting stuff from local or law enforcement or courthouse people; his sources were state people.”
The former CNN reporter indicated that an issue of reputation and stature helped get King’s reporting on the air. “There is tremendous pressure, even though CNN is inherently conservative in its news judgment,” Brown said. “It was one of the most trusted reporters in the organization and in the news business. Did the executive producer make the call? Absolutely. Was the anchor involved? Probably not.”
“If I’m running a cable news organization,” Brown said, “which I’m surely not and don’t expect to, one of the things I would try to do is be humble in breaking stuff.” He indicated that CNN ought to have run its sources’ claims with a caveat: “Say, ‘This is what we’re getting. If it all bears out, it could be a huge moment.’
“It would be unfair not to recognize that they’re very serious about getting it right,” said Brown. But within CNN, he speculated, there will be attempts by the same reporters who checked their emails on-air today looking for more information to distance themselves from the story. “What direction does shit roll? The direction it rolls now. It’s the reporter’s story and the reporter’s going to be the one who has the  hardest time sleeping tonight.”
Daniel D'Addario is a staff reporter for Salon's entertainment section. Follow him on Twitter @DPD_