And so I assume they must have told us the truth about Iraq. Hmmm.
Darren
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1170535,00.html
US government faked Bush news reports
Chris Tryhorn
Tuesday March 16, 2004
TV news reports in America that showed President George Bush getting a
standing ovation from potential voters have been exposed as fake, it has
emerged.
The US government admitted it paid actors to pose as journalists in
video news releases sent to TV stations intending to convey support for
new laws about health benefits.
Investigators are examining the film segments, in which actors
pretending to be journalists praise the benefits of the new law passed
last year by President Bush, to see if they could be construed as
propaganda.
Two of the films are signed off by "Karen Ryan", who was an actor hired
to read a script prepared by the government, according to production
company Home Front Communications.
Another video, intended for Hispanic viewers, shows a government
official being interviewed in Spanish by a actor posing as a reporter
with the name "Alberto Garcia".
One segment shows a pharmacist telling an elderly customer the new law
"helps you better afford your medications".
"It sounds like a good idea," the customer says, to which the pharmacist
replies, "A very good idea."
And in some scenes President Bush is shown receiving a standing ovation
from a crowd cheering him as he signed the Medicare law, which is
designed to help elderly people with prescriptions.
The government also prepared scripts to be used by news anchors. "In
December, President Bush signed into law the first-ever prescription
drug benefit for people with Medicare," the script reads.
"Since then, there have been a lot of questions about how the law will
help older Americans and people with disabilities. Reporter Karen Ryan
helps sort through the details." The "reporter" then explains the
benefits of the new law.
Lawyers from the investigative arm of Congress discovered the tapes as
part of an investigation into federal money that was used to publicise
the new law.
They will be keen to ascertain whether the government might have misled
viewers by failing to reveal the source of the videos, which were
broadcast in Oklahoma, Louisiana and other states.
"Video news releases" of this sort have been used in the US since the
1980s, but the way they blur the lines between news and advertising
troubles many media experts and campaigners.
The government defended the videos, which Democrats described as
"disturbing". "The use of video news releases is a common, routine
practice in government and the private sector," a health department
spokesman told the New York Times.
VNRs are also used in Europe but a furore surrounding a Greenpeace video
package about its campaign to prevent the dumping of Shell's Brent Spar
oil platform sent to British broadcasters some years ago led to new
rules clamping down on their use.
Greenpeace's sophisticated media offensive - including the provision of
emotive film footage of its occupation of the platform - resulted in
one-dimensional coverage by BBC and ITN, news chiefs admitted at the
time.
Guidelines were subsequently drawn up to label video news releases as
such - a category which the regular Osama bin Laden videos now fall.
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The armies of the ransomed saints throng up the steps of light.
"Tis finished, all is finished, their fight with death and sin.
Fling open wide the pearly gates and let the victors in." (Unknown)
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Darren
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1170535,00.html
US government faked Bush news reports
Chris Tryhorn
Tuesday March 16, 2004
TV news reports in America that showed President George Bush getting a
standing ovation from potential voters have been exposed as fake, it has
emerged.
The US government admitted it paid actors to pose as journalists in
video news releases sent to TV stations intending to convey support for
new laws about health benefits.
Investigators are examining the film segments, in which actors
pretending to be journalists praise the benefits of the new law passed
last year by President Bush, to see if they could be construed as
propaganda.
Two of the films are signed off by "Karen Ryan", who was an actor hired
to read a script prepared by the government, according to production
company Home Front Communications.
Another video, intended for Hispanic viewers, shows a government
official being interviewed in Spanish by a actor posing as a reporter
with the name "Alberto Garcia".
One segment shows a pharmacist telling an elderly customer the new law
"helps you better afford your medications".
"It sounds like a good idea," the customer says, to which the pharmacist
replies, "A very good idea."
And in some scenes President Bush is shown receiving a standing ovation
from a crowd cheering him as he signed the Medicare law, which is
designed to help elderly people with prescriptions.
The government also prepared scripts to be used by news anchors. "In
December, President Bush signed into law the first-ever prescription
drug benefit for people with Medicare," the script reads.
"Since then, there have been a lot of questions about how the law will
help older Americans and people with disabilities. Reporter Karen Ryan
helps sort through the details." The "reporter" then explains the
benefits of the new law.
Lawyers from the investigative arm of Congress discovered the tapes as
part of an investigation into federal money that was used to publicise
the new law.
They will be keen to ascertain whether the government might have misled
viewers by failing to reveal the source of the videos, which were
broadcast in Oklahoma, Louisiana and other states.
"Video news releases" of this sort have been used in the US since the
1980s, but the way they blur the lines between news and advertising
troubles many media experts and campaigners.
The government defended the videos, which Democrats described as
"disturbing". "The use of video news releases is a common, routine
practice in government and the private sector," a health department
spokesman told the New York Times.
VNRs are also used in Europe but a furore surrounding a Greenpeace video
package about its campaign to prevent the dumping of Shell's Brent Spar
oil platform sent to British broadcasters some years ago led to new
rules clamping down on their use.
Greenpeace's sophisticated media offensive - including the provision of
emotive film footage of its occupation of the platform - resulted in
one-dimensional coverage by BBC and ITN, news chiefs admitted at the
time.
Guidelines were subsequently drawn up to label video news releases as
such - a category which the regular Osama bin Laden videos now fall.
===============================
"Ten thousand times ten thousands in sparkling raiment's bright,
The armies of the ransomed saints throng up the steps of light.
"Tis finished, all is finished, their fight with death and sin.
Fling open wide the pearly gates and let the victors in." (Unknown)
http://philadelphians.50megs.com/
*NEW WORLD ORDER QUOTES
http://philadelphians.50megs.com/nwoquote.html
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