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From: LindyBill3/14/2005 3:45:50 AM
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Hewitt -

The New York Times takes a cue from the left-wing blogs and writes that "nder the Bush administration, the federal government has aggressively used a well-established tool of public relations: the prepackaged, ready-to-serve news report that major corporations have long distributed to TV stations to pitch everything from headache remedies to auto insurance." It takes eleven graphs for the paper to note that "[t]he practice, which also occurred in the Clinton administration..."

The Los Angeles Times has a lengthy article on the decision by Libya to give up its WMD. This disarmament is one the great victories of the Bush Doctrine, so I expected the article to somehow attempt to undermine the achievement, and sure enough, the piece sets up early its intended result:

"Officials still disagree about exactly why Kadafi gave up the programs. Some information supports President Bush's contention that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the broader U.S. doctrine of pre-emptive strikes forced the Libyan leader to act.

But several British and U.S. officials said Kadafi had been trying for years to surrender the weapons to end the international sanctions crippling the Libyan economy and smooth the way for his eldest son's eventual assumption of power."

Incredibly, the reporter never discovered or chose not to include the exchange between Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Kadafi in which Khadafi admitted he acted to disarm in response to the projection of American power into Iraq. Charles Krauthammer wrote on this more than a year ago, but the Times just can't be troubled to draw the obvious conclusions. Instead it helps produce an alternative narrative of the sort that will be used by Bush critics to deny the reality of the success of the Administration across the entire region.
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