It's about the PROPAGANDA, STUPID!! (re: Gannon)

[moggie12]

You can feel the Gannon story building: Howie Kurtz tried to deep-six it, but Keith Olbermann wouldn't let go, and now even America's sweetheart, Katie Couric, talked about it this morning (when Katie talks about something, that means the story is officially "mainstream").

To me, the propaganda angle is key: Fake reporters lobbing fake questions at White House press conferences is yet one more piece of the huge PROPAGANDA effort this administration has engaged in to MANIPULATE public opinion.

In my opinion, Frank Rich NAILED it today in a piece on the NY Times website. It is well-worth your time to read the whole article but this was the line I liked best:

"Even now, we know that the fake news generated by the six known shills is only a small piece of the administration's overall propaganda effort."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/arts/20rich.html

FINALLY, somebody said it!!! Yes, America, you have been purposely manipulated by the Bush administration!! It isn't an accident, it's a plan!! I mean, for Godsakes, they've paid off "opinion journalists" and planted fake reporters front-and-center in White House press conferences!!

Rich also pointed out that we have only seen the tip of the iceberg:

"The money that paid for both the Ryan-Garcia news packages and the Armstrong Williams contract was siphoned through the same huge public relations firm, Ketchum Communications, which itself filtered the funds through subcontractors. A new report by Congressional Democrats finds that Ketchum has received $97 million of the administration's total $250 million P.R. kitty, of which the Williams and Ryan-Garcia scams would account for only a fraction. We have yet to learn precisely where the rest of it ended up."


I suggest this:

E-mail Countdown, Hardball, Aaron Brown, Tim Russert, etc. and ask them to have Frank Rich on their shows. Links:
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
Russert: [e-mail]
Aaron Brown: http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?13

And maybe for the heck of it:
Blitzer: http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?8
Crossfire: http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?7
[e-mail]

Or just leave Rich out of it and e-mail them to say you're "upset" about the propaganda. Forget about the sex and focus on the PROPAGANDA -- two lines is all you need to do. They count the number of e-mails that come in on various subjects -- the rule of thumb in media/marketing is that for every person who writes, there's another 100 that feel the same way. This story has the potential to blow wide open if we keep up the pressure -- when Katie mentions it, you know you're getting somewhere....

[Cocoa]

1. yep, the gay prostitute angle is just an attention-grabber

and a great one, especially with the pictures. :-)

[EVDebs]

2. Corporate media can't say "Operation Mockingbird" on air !!!

They will have to be skewered upon their own petard, on weblogs, and twist slowly in the wind !

Also, CNN and PsyOps by Counterpunch webzine exposed this abuse by the military side back in the 2000 election. No one said a word in corporate media.

Ask yourself 'why' ?

[moggie12]

3. Chris Matthews, NBC Nightly News, Anderson Cooper, Ron Reagan

All did pieces on Gannon today (those are the ones I saw or heard about - where there more??).

This story has staying power. If it keeps up -- and they start connecting the dots and seeing this as part of the huge propaganda campaign perpetrated on America -- THEN maybe we'll start getting somewhere.

Sending a few e-mails can only help.