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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate?
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To: 10K a day who wrote (6038)2/25/2006 11:41:39 AM
From: zonkie  Read Replies (1) of 9838
 
Everyone knows the neocons hold a lot of sway with the heads of many networks, newspapers and have even been caught illegally manipulating public broadcasting. They try to tell us there aren't more left leaning political shows on TV because nobody will watch them. I don't believe this, I think it is more because of their control over the people who make the programming decisions than any other reason. It has come out recently that junior spent $1,600,000,000 (1.6 billion) to manipulate the media last year. A lot of this money goes for writers to write favorable articles about junior's policies or simply to put their name on something written by a person in the bush administration. A lot goes for making phony videos which are ads for bush policy's but appear on TV as bi-partisan news stories. Some goes for bribes. Some goes for far right think tanks whose job it is to figure out ways to put a positive spin on the terrible job bush is doing. It's all propaganda no matter how you look at it and it shouldn't be done. There's many more ways the neocons use parts of the 1.6 billion to polish their turd. One way which I haven't seen reported but I strongly suspect is that the neocons have some influence over the Nielsen ratings. Think about it, they have their fingers in every other part of the media so why wouldn't they use some of the money to influence the ratings. This would be a powerful tool for them. They want all of the shows on fox to outrate the shows on any other cable news channel so why wouldn't they do what they could to achieve this goal.
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