Bush & Company buys the Media and P.R.

[Botany]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39872-2005Jan26.html

For all those who think the media is paid for ..........


"Separately, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and nine colleagues released a report showing that the Bush administration spent more than $88 million last year on contracts with public relations firms, an increase of 128 percent over the last year of the Clinton administration. Medicare and Medicaid officials have spent the most on outside publicity firms over the past four years, the report said."

I know that "they" use Hill & Knowlton and Creative Response Concepts to plant stories and to get back door access to the media ..... But I have 2 questions.

1. Who else is on the payroll?
2. How do "they" control so much of the MSM message. i.e. Just about a blackout on
election fraud despite tons of evidence.

As was mentioned on an earlier thread bush, now is using the term "Private Accounts"
instead of Social Security Reform. Straight up P.R..

:kick:

If we are to take back this country not only do we need election reform but we also
need to be able to make sure "our" message gets out.

[Skidmore]

1. Time to take the media apart....

brick by brick.

[itzamirakul]

2. Correction on Social Security terminology...

I just read that a poll shows the term "Private Accounts" to be unpopular among older Americans. Therefore Bush wants media to substitute the term "PERSONAL Accounts," which is apparently looked upon more favorably.

Don't forget that the corporate media heads can demand a certain kind of news report from their employees. Each of these major tv news outlets aso owns radio stations and newspapers, thanks to deregulation. So the order that news will be delivered in a certain way comes from the top. They hire talking heads that will deliver that message passionately. Then because of the good old boy network, these talking heads also qualify for consulting work with other GOP enterprises whose business can use a little PR. The whole thing is incestuous.

That's one reason why Ted Turner has been on a rampage against the RW msm media. He knows how this works.

OMMISSION is just as dangerous as biased reporting.

[Botany]

3. Thanx for the Correction

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