Bush crew feeds 'news,' TV swallows

[kskiska]

Imagine that you manage a small-market TV station. You are pressed for time, understaffed and face the usual gaping holes of several newscasts to fill.

What do you slap on the air, another minor local crime story that will take staff time, or a ready-made, professionally packaged treatment of a timely issue?

The White House spin doctors have made your life easy. They've provided a one-sided but slick-looking report on the new Medicare law, something nobody in-house has time to cover.

The Bush administration this week was caught planting propaganda as "news" items on TV stations nationally.

(snip)

This Karen Ryan could be all over the place ...

Economic indicators are up, an unnamed White House source told this reporter. A standing ovation greeted President Bush today as a rising tide of consumer confidence washed over the nation's capital. In Washington, I'm Karen Ryan.

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[elfwitch]

1. Jon Stewart covered this last night

It was brilliant!

[arcane1]

2. shouldn't this be some kind of ethics violation??

I can just imagine the furor is Clinton had pulled some stunt like this to sell his health care reform. THe repubes would still be talking about it...

Jon Stewart blew his audience's minds with this story last night. I have never seen such a reaction from a Daily Show crowd

it was sweet :)

[Moderator]

3. This was first reported on Sunday

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