GOP: Grand Old Propaganda

[auburngrad82]

http://www.dailyvanguard.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/11/420c6ed96ff75

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This "editor-in-chief," who has a vested political (rather than journalistic) interest, has sent one of his "reporters" into the White House press corps to ask the president some easy questions. Was this done in collusion with the White House or in ignorance?

It's obvious.

The Bush administration is paying people to disseminate their point of view. And it pays well. A conservative radio host on 630 WMAL auctioned his services off recently on eBay. How much worse does this have to get before something is done?

The whole problem is, if an outcry is made, who will report it? NBC, owned by General Electric, which gave $757,386 to the GOP in 2004? Clear Channel Communications, which owns radio and television stations in nearly every county in the nation, and gave twice as much to Republican candidates as to Democratic? Should we count on Fox News to reveal the extent of the administration's propaganda tactics, when they feature those same paid commentators as "fair and balanced" sources?

It would be much easier to just get our news directly from the government, straight from the elephant's mouth. In early 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld proposed doing just that with the creation of the "Office of Strategic Influence."