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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skywatcher who wrote (2179)	4/2/2005 7:49:07 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 9838

I was just talking about this on another thread! I posted this: commondreams.org I think if the League of Women Voters were explaining things to the public, then at least someone might be taking a stab at making the explanations "fair"- but Bush going around the country to pimp his own plan to audiences so prepackaged they are excluding people based on what they might do, and not what they have done? Kind of sums up the problems we face in this country right now wrt free speech. Prior restraint is everywhere- and for the most part people aren't upset about it. Since fewer and fewer of the people in this country even know what is in the constitution, it's not going to be hard to subvert it, or throw it out entirely.

To: Skywatcher who wrote (2179)	4/3/2005 12:04:30 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

Glad you were able to find an anti-Bush article at commondreams.....what are the chances of that? LOL.

To: Skywatcher who wrote (2179)	4/4/2005 3:53:16 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 9838

Excerpts: >>>Asked why the president speaks only to his supporters, White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Bush's intention is to "educate" the people. He probably meant "indoctrinate." Is this the president of all the people -- or just some of the people who agree with him? It's bizarre. He's preaching to the choir, hardly the way to "educate" the public.<<< >>>Every administration tries to manage the message that the news media convey to the public about presidential policies, problems and successes. But the Bush White House is pioneering new methods that steer message management into outright government propaganda.<<< >>>The Government Accountability Office -- a congressional investigative unit -- has ruled that such government videos represent "covert propaganda." The GAO declared that agencies may not produce pre-packaged news reports "that conceal or do not clearly identify for the television viewing audience" that they were made by the government. But the White House rejected that opinion and handed reporters a memorandum from the Justice Department and the Office of Management and Budget directing the federal agencies to ignore the GAO verdict.<<<