The RW Propoganda Machine: 'The Mighty Wurlitzer'

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Stumbled on this article at http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/8/borosage-r.html

It describes what we are up against to a tee--not just the media but the money, and the organization and the history and practice that are tightening the noose on our democracy. Scary and compelling.

"...With all that ideological money, institutional heft, coordination, and credentialing, the right has perfected what the CIA used to call a "mighty Wurlitzer" -- a propaganda machine that can hone a fact or a lie, broadcast it, and have it echoed and recycled in Fox News commentary, in Washington Times news stories, in Wall Street Journal editorials, by myriad right-wing pundits, by Heritage seminars and briefing papers, and in congressional hearings and speeches. Privatization of Social Security, vouchers for school, Vince Foster's supposed murder, Hillary's secret sex life, you name it -- the right's mighty Wurlitzer can ensure that a message is broadcast across the county, echoed in national and local news, and reverberated in the speeches of respectable academics as well as rabid politicians..."