News Or Theatre? Investigative Journalist & Land Rights Activist Tony Gosling, Green Gathering 2015
Bilderberg media blackout
With the exception of special guest reporters, journalists are barred from Bilderberg meetings. The secret services of the United States and several European nations coordinate with local police to enforce a strict "no-go" area around Bilderberg venues such as the Turnberry Hotel in Scotland. Since the Group's first meeting in 1954, its security network has been specifically used to prevent reporters from sneaking into the forum.
Critics have suggested that the media have been slow to investigate and report on the Bilderberg because many corporate news executives and journalists are members of the Group. Like all other Bilderberg attendees, these individuals have agreed to remain silent about the meetings, in spite of their responsibilities as high-ranking members of the national and international media.
"Guests of the Bilderberg Society are bound by the same rules as members of the Bilderberg Society -- not to write about the proceedings," conservative columnist William F. Buckley wrote six months after attending the Bilderberg's 1975 meeting.
Some of the Bilderberg's past "guests" from the corporate media include:
News Corporation director Andrew Knight;
Reuters CEO Peter Job;
Henry Anatole Grunwald, former editor-in-chief of Time and Council on Foreign Relations member;
Mortimer B. Zuckerman, chairman and editor-in-chief of U.S. News and World Report, New York Daily News, and Atlantic Monthly, also a Council on Foreign Relations member;
Robert L. Bartley, vice president of the Wall Street Journal and member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission;
Peter Robert Kann, Chairman and CEO of Dow Jones and Company, and member of the Council on Foreign Relations;
Katharine Graham, owner and chairwoman of the executive committee of the Washington Post, also a member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission;
Jim Hoagland, associate editor, of the Washington Post;
New York Times editor and Council on Foreign Relations member Arthur Sulzberger;
Former Newsweek editor Osborn Eliot;
London Observer editor Will Hutton;
Canadian press baron Conrad Black;
Peter Jennings, anchor and senior editor of ABC's World News Tonight;
Lesley R. Stahl, CBS national affairs correspondent;
WETA-TV president and CEO Sharon Percy Rockefeller;
William F. Buckley, Jr., editor-in-chief of the National Review, host of PBS's Firing Line and Council on Foreign Relations member;
Prominent political columnists Joseph Kraft, James Reston, Joseph Harsch, George Will, and Flora Lewis;
Donald C. Cook, former European diplomatic correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and Council on Foreign Relations member;
Albert J. Wohlstetter, Wall Street Journal correspondent and Council on Foreign Relations member;
Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times columnist and member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission;
New York Times book critic Richard Bernstein;
Hedley Donovan, Henry Grunwald, and Ralph Davidson of Time;
Joseph C. Harsch, former NBC commentator and Council on Foreign Relations member;
Bill Moyers, executive director of Public Affairs TV and former Director of the Council on Foreign Relations;
Gerald Piel, former chairman of Scientific American and Council on Foreign Relations member;
William Kristol, editor and publisher of the British Weekly Standard magazine;
Toger Seidenfaden, editor in chief of Denmark's Politiken A/S.
Journalists and newspeople outside the Bilderberg's elite inner circle rarely pay much attention to the Group's activities, usually because they are unaware of them. In recent years, citizen media activists have had a small measure of success in getting the local media to cover Bilderberg meetings when they occur. These reports have little impact in the national and international media, but thanks to the Internet, detailed information from coverage by local and regional newspapers is now available to the public worldwide. Without this information, the report you are now reading could not have been written.
Although underground information activists have managed to pierce the local media bubbles and gather useful information about the Bilderberg's meetings, scrutiny of the Group in the establishment press is still verboten.
For example, there is the case of C. Gordon Tether, who for years wrote the prestigious and influential column "Lombard" for the London Financial Times. In his May 6, 1975 column, Tether wrote: "If the Bilderberg Group is not a conspiracy of some sort, it is conducted in such a way as to give a remarkably good imitation of one."
This would be Tether's last reference to the Bilderberg. He continued to write articles mentioning the Group, but editorial management barred every single one of them from
