Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JohnM who wrote (125734)	11/27/2009 10:01:38 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541124

<<<that the press is so far into the immediate game scoring stuff rather than long term assessment that no presidential spokesperson, no matter how gifted, could change it.>>> I would expect they appoint someone with some standing or have some amount of personal credibility and be able to at least present the administrations point of view. I know in past administrations they were able to plant false stories in the major newspapers if you remember Judith Miller et al and there were other stories about paying and compromising journalists. And of course there were all kinds of stories where previous administrations would leak information to favored journalists almost on a regular basis. Those practises were common to all previous administrations. This administration seems unable to tell its own side of the story on the up and up.