A Potemkin reporter for Bush's Potemkin America

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http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_2567918

A Potemkin reporter for Bush's Potemkin America

Grigori Potemkin was an 18th century Russian general who is said to have built sham villages to impress Catherine the Great with his administration's good work. In an America hypnotized by Faux - sorry, Fox - News, President Bush and his Svengali, Karl Rove, have proven how easy the trick is.
After a campaign marked by rallies where right-wing credentials were the price of admission, they now want you to believe that a "reporter" for a Web site run by Republican political operatives wasn't given preferential access to the White House.
In George Bush's Potemkin America, we now have a Potemkin reporter.
Until a week ago Jeff Gannon - an assumed name for the real James D. Guckert - worked for TalonNews.com, owned by Texas Republican party activist Bobby Eberle. Talon, whose staff is composed largely of party activists with no journalism experience, doesn't pretend to objectivity. For that reason, JG, as he has become known, was repeatedly denied a congressional press pass, normally a prerequisite for a "hard" pass to the White House. <snip>

Thanks to Americablog for originally posting the link at their website.

http://www.americablog.org/

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1. kick

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2. It looks like there is an independent press questioning the president.

but there isn't.

It looks like issues are debated. But instead we get propaganda meant to smear opponents and marginalize them.

It looks as if Congress deliberates over bills. But they don't even see them before they vote.

District lines are drawn to make elections foregone conclusions. There is the form of an election, but there isn't.

And we could go on and on.