9/11 NORAD tapes released...
POSTED BY: Dayve
UPDATED: Friday, August 4, 2006 23:15
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Anti- this is one area where you and I totally and thoroughly agree.
What people don't realize is that "the press" get 90%+ news material from "news releases". Government officials- from the WH Press Scy to the head of the local dog pound- issue a statement, release a report, or hold a press conference and the press dutifully "reports" "the news". If anyone doesn't believe me, just grab the next newspaper or website and start looking at/ for the source. "According to highly placed officials/ WH staff/ the police blotter..."
"The government" isn't about to tell you it f*cked up. It's going to tell you exactly what it thinks you need to hear in order to incite action or escape disapproval. The timing and tempo is a reliable indicator of what the government is planning to do- or trying to escape... and turning the public on and off is almost as easy as flicking a switch.
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Reality sucks. Especially when it contradicts our cherished ideas.
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Well said.
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i agree..thats precisely how it tends to work; and yet so few Americans can distinguish between a propoganda piece, a press release, and a fair and balanced news anaylsis..or is it that at some point they converge to become the same peice of information?
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This administration is particularly adept at covering its own ass. I’ve found that many pieces of egregious legislation are often pushed to late on Friday thereby circumventing the evening news casts and, it seems, in hopes of landing the really bad press releases in the Saturday newspapers, evidently in hopes of catching the public unaware.
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