DISQUS

Pete · 3 years ago

There is a back story to this show and its development that 48 Hours is
> not disclosing. 2 UK journalists worked on the story 48 Hours does not
> want you to know!
>
> Story:
>
> CBS/48 Hours program hides connections.
>
> A CBS/48 Hours program which slams Hollywood favorite Tom Cruise has
> been exposed for having an undisclosed Conflict of Interest and secret
> agenda against the star and his Scientology religion. (See info below
> from CBS/48 Hours website synopsis)
>
> The program makes a bizarre claim that the 44-year old actor's beliefs
> are responsible for the tragic death of one of the church's followers, a
> mother who was stabbed to death by her deranged son.
>
> 48 Hours has interviewed critics of Scientology claiming the church
> stopped the killer from getting psychiatric drugs which could have
> prevented the stabbing.
>
> But CBS/48 Hours bosses have failed to declare that they are largely
> funded by the pharmaceutical industry which makes the drugs in question
> - and the producer's families made a fortune from owning psychiatric
> hospitals, two very clear conflicts of interest undisclosed by CBS.
>
> CBS, which produces 48 Hours, is owned by media magnate Sumner Redstone
> who recently fell out with Cruise over his movie career. Several CBS
> executives have been accused of hiding the conflicts of interest and of
> being unfairly biased against the Mission Impossible star and his
> religion.
>
> CBS earned a staggering $592 million dollars in 2005 from advertising
> pharmaceuticals, a significant proportion of which are anti-depressants
> and psychotropic drugs. (Source TNS Media Intelligence)
>
> In addition, an executive producer on the show has a family history
> steeped in psychiatry. Susan Zirinsky's parents built, owned and
> operated Gracie Square Hospital, one of the largest privately owned
> psychiatric hospitals in the United States, which they later sold for
> over $25 million. Susan Zirinsky's mother Cynthia Zirinsky still sits on
> the board of directors for Gracie Square and the Mental Health
> Association of New York which she personally founded. Susan Zirinsky's
> husband Joseph Peyronnin also sits on the board and is an active
> advocate for the Mental Health Association of New York giving tens of
> thousands of dollars in support and receiving awards from the
> organization.
>
> Now they run the Zirinsky Mood Disorders Center at Beth Israel Medical
> Center in New York. Many have criticized the show and CBS for not being
> impartial.
>
> The news channel is risking another 'Rathergate' scandal with its
> flagship 48 Hours program. In September 2004 CBS was disgraced when
> documents criticizing President George Bush's military record were shown
> to be false. The discredited network was forced to apologize for the
> accusation and many employees were fired.
>
> This week's show revolves around the case of Jeremy Perkins, a psychotic
> who brutally stabbed his mother Eli to death in March 2003. The Perkins'
> are Scientologists and critics say that they were against psychiatry and
> psychiatric treatment.
>
> It is likely that the program will conclude that Eli's death
> could have been avoided if they were not Scientologists. The
> broadcast will also feature Tom Cruise's comments on the
> pharmaceutical and psychiatric industry from the NBC morning
> program broadcast last year. However Cruise made his outspoken
> comments a full two years after the Perkins murder.
>
> A second producer on the show named Miguel Sancho is also
> related to an esteemed psychiatrist, Dr Lobis, who is based in
> Boston via his sister. Dr. Lobis was the psychiatrist in
> charge of releasing a young mental patient who killed his
> parents with a baseball bat the day after his release. Both
> refused to comment on the potential conflict of interest.
>
> For CBS/48 Hours to say or convey that this tragedy was
> avoidable by putting the subject on psychotropic medications
> is simply not true and irresponsible, current studies of these
> medications clearly show patients taking psychotropic drugs
> can become extremely violent and suicidal, there is no way and
> no psychiatrist or test that can predict the behavior of a
> person having a psychotic episode. The US prisons are filled
> with people that have committed violent acts and homicides
> while on these psychotropic medications or under the care of
> a psychiatrist.
>
> When the comparisons between the Rathergate story and their
> latest show were pointed out, again CBS refused to comment. A
> spokesman said: "Our programs don't stand in favor of any
> particular side. "Our job is to try and present all sides.
> This is what we do. So we don't editorialize. That's not what
> we do. That's not our job."

drumsnwhistles · 3 years ago

Um, just about every commercial industry in the US has pharma advertising behind it. That doesn't mean they're biased in their reporting.

I'm not even going to address the fact that producers are related to mental health professionals - I'm sure you could find a relationship for just about everyone on the planet to a mental health professional. So what?

As I said in my original post on this, the fact that he responded to medications in a non-violent and positive manner pretty much negates the "there is no mental illness" theory.

Mike Russell · 3 years ago

Hello,
How can i get a transcript or tape of the 28th program?
Thanks in advance,
Mike

drumsnwhistles · 3 years ago

Hi Mike,

Here's the 48 Hours Transcript link. It takes awhile for them to post the transcripts -- about a week or so.

DnW

Hubbard was a conman · 3 years ago

For those that were unable to catch on the telly.

http://www.dailymotion.com/XENUTV/video/xkmax_s...