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To: Thomas M. who started this subject8/5/2004 2:51:49 PM
From: Thomas M.   of 718
 
The mass media tend to amplify White House propaganda. This is one mechanism:

<<< ... "As the pressure built on the administration and their case got shakier and shakier, there was obviously a lot greater stress, and there was some shouting that was done at us over the telephone," Hoyt says. Some of those calls came from well-known names in high places, Bureau Chief John Walcott adds, declining to drop any names.

Around that time, the White House turned up the pressure, Strobel says, and "tried to freeze us out of briefings."

Landay adds: "I think this administration may have a fairly punitive policy when it comes to journalists who get in their face. And if you talk to some White House reporters, there is a fear of losing access." He says that fear may have played into the relatively uncritical approach of news organizations like the Times ... >>>

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Kudos to Knight-Ridder for bucking the system!
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