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

To: 10K a day who wrote (6038)	2/25/2006 11:41:39 AM
From: zonkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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.

To: 10K a day who wrote (6038)	2/25/2006 9:19:08 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 9838

Is Al Qaeda Just A Bush Boogeyman? Is it conceivable that Al Qaeda, as defined by President Bush as the center of a vast and well-organized international terrorist conspiracy, does not exist?... • If Osama bin Laden does, in fact, head a vast international terrorist organization with trained operatives in more than 40 countries, as claimed by Bush, why, despite torture of prisoners, has this administration failed to produce hard evidence of it? • How can it be that in Britain since 9/11, 664 people have been detained on suspicion of terrorism but only 17 have been found guilty, most of them with no connection to Islamist groups and none who were proven members of Al Qaeda? • Why have we heard so much frightening talk about "dirty bombs" when experts say it is panic rather than radioactivity that would kill people? • Why did Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claim on "Meet the Press" in 2001 that Al Qaeda controlled massive high-tech cave complexes in Afghanistan, when British and U.S. military forces later found no such thing?... ...Consider, for example, that neither the 9/11 commission nor any court of law has been able to directly take evidence from the key post-9/11 terror detainees held by the United States. Everything we know comes from two sides that both have a great stake in exaggerating the threat posed by Al Qaeda: the terrorists themselves and the military and intelligence agencies that have a vested interest in maintaining the facade of an overwhelmingly dangerous enemy... zmag.org