Glenn Greenwald of Salon interviewed Jeff Cohen a few weeks ago. Here's an excerpt from the show page:
This morning, I interviewed Jeff Cohen, the former producer of the MSNBC show Donahue, which was canceled weeks before the invasion of Iraq despite being that network's highest rated show because, as a leaked NBC memorandum revealed, that network did not want to host an anti-war commentator -- not even a single one.
Cohen's comments, particularly as the interview progresses, are very illuminating regarding the corporate and political pressures at MSNBC at that time to promote only a pro-war, pro-Bush view. It's roughly 30 minutes long. The sound quality of the interview is quite good (we're continuously trying to improve sound quality) and Cohen makes many trenchant observations and reveals some very interesting facts about NBC, MSNBC, GE and its various on-air personalities. The interview can be heard here.
You may think the interview will do nothing more than confirm some of your suspicions, but it's well worth listening to, anyway. It is just astounding to what lengths the selling of the Iraq invasion went.
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