Money, Media & the Mess in America

[kentuck]

a semi-long read - but worth it. here's the link : http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/012805.html


By Robert Parry

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Sometime after 2009, when historians pick through the wreckage left behind by George W. Bush’s administration, they will have to come to grips with the role played by the professional conservative media infrastructure.

Indeed, it will be hard to comprehend how Bush got two terms as President of the United States, ran up a massive debt, and misled the country into at least one disastrous war – without taking into account the extraordinary influence of the conservative media, from Fox News to Rush Limbaugh, from the Washington Times to the Weekly Standard.

Recently, it’s been revealed, too, that the Bush administration paid conservative pundits Armstrong Williams and Maggie Gallagher while they promoted White House policies. Even fellow conservatives have criticized those payments, but the truth is that the ethical line separating conservative “journalism” from government propaganda has long since been wiped away.

For years now, there’s been little meaningful distinction between the Republican Party and the conservative media machine.


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[librechik]

1. link?

[kentuck]

3. Sorry about that...here it is.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/012805.html

[Ironpost]

2. You got that right