If you ever doubted the existence of the radical right echo chamber,

[stevedeshazer]

Click here.

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=nampa+bush&scoring=d

[LTR]

1. They did the same thing...

...with the so-called Air America scandal.

Funny thing is, most of the Google news links were for right-wing blogs, all posting the same article.

[Brotherjohn]

2. That's mpressive! I often see the WH line echoed in numerous Google News

... hits. But NEVER like this!

When they said
"The White House will be initiating a campaign to regain support for the war."

what they meant was

"The White House will be initiating a campaign to lean on every corporate media outlet in the country to make sure they parrot the administration line that pulling out of Iraq would make us weaker".

[stevedeshazer]

5. It goes all the way to Page 34

At least for now.

[DIKB]

3. LoL

that's near damning evidence. WH press releases being passed off everywhere as news.

[underpants]

4. That is just the AP story on several papers-google "sheehan Israel"

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=RNWE,RNWE:2004-17,RNWE:en&q=sheehan+israel

and here is the truth

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2019744

[stevedeshazer]

8. That's messed up, too.

34 pages is more than several, though!

[BlueEyedSon]

6. The purpose of the media is to protect the government.

[craigolemiss]

7. Its an AP story

is the AP now an arm of the GOP?

Its the same story in all these small papers--right off the AP wire. Nedra Pickler is one of the White House AP reporters.

Now, you may not like her, and in there has been interesting research into her possible bias, or more reasonably, lack of the "whole story"

http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2004/01/yglesias-m-01-20.html

Just because all these papers are running the "same" story is not an issue.

[stevedeshazer]

10. Welcome, craigolemiss

It's an issue with me that hundreds of newspapers are regurgitating exactly the same story for mass consumption in every small, medium, and large market in the country.

I wouldn't want to eat at the same restaurant every day.

[craigolemiss]

12. Thats what the AP does though

They sell news stories to small town papers.

Every podunk newspaper can't send a reporter everywhere so they buy the stories from the Associated Press. At one point in this country there were several more companies like this. Right now there is AP and several smaller companies selling news to news organizations.

In fact Tallon News was one of this type of organization. They had a "reporter" at the White House and in theory, newspapers and radio and tv would have paid them for the information they generated.

The newspapers are not "regurgitating exactly the same story" the newspapers actually PAID the Associated Press so that they could run the story. That's the way the news biz works.

[samsingh]

9. good find.

[mikelewis]

11. Nedra Pickler - Ladies and Gentlemen - "Nit Picklering,"

"Welcome to the exciting world of "Nit Picklering," a label devised by popular liberal blogger Atrios to honor Associated Press campaign reporter Nedra Pickler's invention of a new standard for honesty whereby a Democrat is lying every time his or her comments neglect to include literally the whole truth, whether or not the overlooked fact actually contradicts the claim in question."
http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2004/01/yglesias-m-01-20.html

It truly is amazing how fast they spread the word. Maybe deregulating our media wasn't such a hot idea after all.

[craigolemiss]

13. When exactly were newspapers "regulated"?

[mikelewis]

14. 8 years ago

Tom Fontana's Statement on Media Deregulation to Senate Committee

http://www.wgaeast.org/features/fcc/2003/05/22/fontana_statement/

[craigolemiss]

16. I think you need to read your link there

That is about the FCC regulation of the television industry

[jane_pippin]

15. Well, in terms of ownership they were more regulated.

For instance, a company couldn't own a tv station (or two or three) and a newspaper in one market. Those rules have been relaxed giving us the joy of corporate media. I think that's what the poster above was getting at.

[craigolemiss]

17. and how does that tie to the original post

that somehow because multiple papers are running an AP story something "fishy" is afoot?

[jane_pippin]

18. I was talking about post 13, not the OP, and your question about

regulation. Sorry for the confusion.

on edit: posting quickly from work sometimes leads to mistakes on my part.

[mikelewis]

19. I was referring to Nedra Pickling... and making a minor point about...

the speed of the RW media machine due to deregulation. My main point was that it was a Nedra article.