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The Power of the New Media, Jeff Gannon Dispatched Into Irrelevancy
By ANTHONY WADE
February 10, 2005
Never before has the new media flexed its muscles collectively, so well, as in the recent case of a liar named Jeff Gannon. Well, Jeff Gannon wasn’t actually his real name. That was a lie too.
It is becoming all too obvious that the myth of a liberal mainstream media is quite dead. This fantasy is held onto so dearly by right-wingers because it is part of their talking points. The reality is far easier to spot though. Talk radio is dominated completely by the right wing machine, with such shrill voices as Limbaugh and Hannity leading the pack. Then you look at cable news see that if a man named Colmes is the only voice of reason, then we are not in Kansas any more Dorothy. It is a matter of story selection, panel composition, and host personalities.
Fox News is nothing more than an extension of the White House and any fair evaluation of them must conclude that. A FAIR study done last year found an overwhelming majority of the prime time guests on the Brit Hume show, were right wing, while the tiny minority of alleged democrats, were actually middle of the road moderates. If it was only Fox we had to worry about, we would still be ok. The real damage Fox News perpetrates on the collective journalistic soul of this country is to make other news, appear mainstream. Next to Fox, the other big networks appear lefty, when in reality they also are lilting far to the right.
The next big cable giant is MSNBC with its flagship show, “Softball, with Chris Matthews”. Chris pretends to ask the tough questions, but a mere glance at his panels will tell the truth of the leanings of his show. In the run-up to the election, Ben Ginsberg was a regular panelist offering analysis. Ben Ginsberg is a republican election lawyer. On the democratic side, Mathews may have Ron Reagan Jr., who is more moderate than democratic or Andrea Mitchell, who is married to Alan Greenspan. This is the mold of the shows that displays its inherent bias. The people on the left are not strong lefty personalities, but rather are moderates who approach topics, fairly. The people on the right however, have an agenda, and that is to push the GOP talking points at all costs. Last night Matthews had on Susan Molinari, who could not stop gushing about the bold social security plan of the president. Her counterpart tried to play fairly, and have a rational discussion. The result was Molinari often shouting over her opponent to get the GOP message through, while Matthews stands by grinning. This is what media and reporting has come to in latter day America. As if this was not bad enough, MSNBC will not even portray equal amounts, of the disproportionate pundits. Following the State of the Union, MSNBC had 11 republican guests to only 2 democratic guests. One of those two democratic guests was the aforementioned Reagan, the moderate. On the GOP side were such strong personalities as Orrin Hatch, Rick Santorum and Pat Buchanan. This is how they stack the shows.
Following the Fox model, MSNBC went out and got themselves a loud voice for their prime time PM slot. Joe Scarborough headlines for MSNBC at ten o’clock. What did Mr. Scarborough do prior to pretending to be a journalist? He was a member of Congress, for the GOP. Offering no apology, Mr. Scarborough was also spotted in the election run-up at a Pro-Bush rally, as a fan, not a journalist. Hmm, I guess objectivity is not on the MSNBC agenda. Joe routinely has on such vitriolic guests as Anne Coulter, to fairly discuss the state of affairs in this country. Please.
Besides hosts and panels, story selection is paramount. The owners of these mainstream media sources are all owned by pro-Bush (because of his pro-deregulatory stance) folks who certainly decide what is covered, and when. In the election run-up we saw months of stories about the swift boat veterans, well after they had been exposed as liars. The coverage of the debates was horrific, expecting Bush to simply put a coherent sentence together to declare victory for him while holding John Kerry to a far higher standard.
Story selection and framing become crucial now, as we will see panels and guests to discuss the folly of Bush’s social security scam. People will sit at home and watch and think they are getting news, and analysis. In reality they are being sold, a product. That product is a bad deal for social security. Bush will send the positive spin out through his talk radio propaganda machine and then turn it over to Fox News. Soon, it will filter down to the MSNBC of the world and eventually it will be difficult to differentiate between what is real, and what is message. Unless, you turn to the new media.
The new media is online. It is not pre-bought, packaged, and sold. Tonight on Fox we see an “exclusive” interview by Sean Hannity of Karl Rove. What ensues is twenty minutes of the most ridiculous softball questions and pandering, whose sole purpose is only to allow Bush unscripted minutes to pimp his positions, under the guise of journalism. The amazing thing is that Hannity shares his show with an alleged lefty, Alan Colmes, but Colmes was not granted to share in this “exclusive”. This is not journalism, it is propaganda. It is not an “exclusive”; it is a pre-planned pimp session, where Rove got to sell the social security scam while Hannity stands by playing the interested journalist. Hannity offers no corrections, when Rove exaggerates or lies but instead, plays blame the democrats. This represents the basest form of journalism as it is really state-sponsored propaganda.
The new media is not for sale. The new media stood up recently when a fellow calling himself Jeff Gannon started popping up at White House press conferences. Gannon was often called on by Scott McClellan, or even Bush, especially when the press conference was not going well. Gannon would serve up the most biased, partisan, ridiculous questions imaginable. Bloggers and new media took notice and started digging. Turns out that Jeff Gannon was not a journalist, he was just playing one for the administration. He was representing a news agency that was also fake. Talon News, it turns out was just a front for an organization called GOPUSA. So, we have a fake journalist, working for a fake news agency, allowed into every White House press briefing for the apparent sole purpose of giving Bush or his representative a breather during press conferences. Gannon’s resume on the Talon News site, stated that he was a “graduate” of the Leadership Institute Broadcast School of Journalism. This turned out to actually be a two day seminar. I had done an article about this, found here:
http://opednews.com/wade_012905_bush_whores.htm
and the very next day the Talon site had removed the resume. It would not end there though. The tireless work of media matters and bloggers everywhere, revealed more and more into this story. It turned out that Jeff Gannon was not even Jeff Gannon. His real name appears to be Jim Guckert and he is allegedly also involved in gay-military escorts styled websites. Not withstanding his personal peccadilloes, what is far more offensive is his goodbye message left today on jeffgannon.com:
“Because of the attention being paid to me I find it is no longer possible to effectively be a reporter for Talon News. In consideration of the welfare of me and my family I have decided to return to private life.”
Spare us the sob story Jeff, or whatever name you want to go by. You never were a reporter, THAT is the point Jeff. You lied your way through life pretending to be a graduate of something related to journalism when it was really a two day seminar. You affiliated yourself with a partisan organization that then created a fake news organization. You lied every day of your life and now you expect anyone to feel bad for you? Please. You are not leaving because of the welfare of your family; you are leaving because you got busted.
Jeff Gannon was a liar and a plant by the Bush administration in the White House press pool. His sole function was to set up silly questions to allow the administration to pontificate about topics they wished to discuss, under the guise of journalism. He is only a microcosm of how this administration thinks it can manipulate, or even create the news. Today it was revealed that there will be a “Pentagon” channel available on the Dish Network. That is right America; your government will produce the entire network devoted to the military. They will package war and death for you and bring it right into your living room. Welcome to George W. Bush’s America.
Jeff Gannon is not the core of the problem, hell, he wasn’t even Jeff Gannon. What he represents, is the embodiment of state-sponsored journalism, more affectionately known as propaganda. He represents what is totally wrong with the system today. You want proof, look who is defending Jeff Gannon today. Sean Hannity was quoted as saying that Gannon was, “a terrific Washington bureau chief and White House correspondent.” The same Sean Hannity who then went on to pretend to be a journalist by allowing Karl Rove to read off his talking points in an “interview”. Howard Kurtz on CNN actually painted Jeff Gannon as a victim of the mean bloggers who investigated his personal life.
Are you kidding me? Memo to Howard and Sean. The man’s name was not really Jeff Gannon, he was lying. He was not a journalist, he was lying. He worked for a fake news organization, he was lying. Are you following me? A man with a fake name, fake credentials, and working for a fake news organization was granted free and unfettered access to the White House press pool, for the apparent sole purpose of bailing out the President or his representative. The story here is how the government planted a fake reporter in their pool to further their propaganda efforts against the people of this country. Let’s see if Sean or Howard covers that story or if they are just whores for this administration.
The new media has spoken. Jeff Gannon is just a blip on the radar that went out today. He is representative of something far more sinister in this country. He is representative of a government that thinks it can frame, create, or distort the truth. You will see it over the next few months. Bush will be on the road, pimping his social security scam. Word is out already that he has refused to take any questions at his pre-arranged publicity stops. He will not let anyone with a dissenting opinion attend any such event. He then will talk at you for an hour about how important it is for you to let him take two trillion dollars out of the social security funds, and then will not even let any reporter ask a question. Maybe he found out that Jeff Gannon would not be there anymore for him to rely on.
There is power in the new media and that power, is the truth.
Anthony Wade, a contributing writer to opednews.com, is dedicated to educating the populace to the lies and abuses of the government. He is a 37-year-old independent writer from New York with political commentary articles seen on multiple websites. A Christian progressive and professional Rehabilitation Counselor working with the poor and disabled, Mr. Wade believes that you can have faith and hold elected officials accountable for lies and excess.
Anthony Wade’s Archive: http://www.opednews.com/archiveswadeanthony.htm
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The Power of the New Media, Jeff Gannon Dispatched Into Irrelevancy
By ANTHONY WADE
February 10, 2005
Never before has the new media flexed its muscles collectively, so well, as in the recent case of a liar named Jeff Gannon. Well, Jeff Gannon wasn’t actually his real name. That was a lie too.
It is becoming all too obvious that the myth of a liberal mainstream media is quite dead. This fantasy is held onto so dearly by right-wingers because it is part of their talking points. The reality is far easier to spot though. Talk radio is dominated completely by the right wing machine, with such shrill voices as Limbaugh and Hannity leading the pack. Then you look at cable news see that if a man named Colmes is the only voice of reason, then we are not in Kansas any more Dorothy. It is a matter of story selection, panel composition, and host personalities.
Fox News is nothing more than an extension of the White House and any fair evaluation of them must conclude that. A FAIR study done last year found an overwhelming majority of the prime time guests on the Brit Hume show, were right wing, while the tiny minority of alleged democrats, were actually middle of the road moderates. If it was only Fox we had to worry about, we would still be ok. The real damage Fox News perpetrates on the collective journalistic soul of this country is to make other news, appear mainstream. Next to Fox, the other big networks appear lefty, when in reality they also are lilting far to the right.
The next big cable giant is MSNBC with its flagship show, “Softball, with Chris Matthews”. Chris pretends to ask the tough questions, but a mere glance at his panels will tell the truth of the leanings of his show. In the run-up to the election, Ben Ginsberg was a regular panelist offering analysis. Ben Ginsberg is a republican election lawyer. On the democratic side, Mathews may have Ron Reagan Jr., who is more moderate than democratic or Andrea Mitchell, who is married to Alan Greenspan. This is the mold of the shows that displays its inherent bias. The people on the left are not strong lefty personalities, but rather are moderates who approach topics, fairly. The people on the right however, have an agenda, and that is to push the GOP talking points at all costs. Last night Matthews had on Susan Molinari, who could not stop gushing about the bold social security plan of the president. Her counterpart tried to play fairly, and have a rational discussion. The result was Molinari often shouting over her opponent to get the GOP message through, while Matthews stands by grinning. This is what media and reporting has come to in latter day America. As if this was not bad enough, MSNBC will not even portray equal amounts, of the disproportionate pundits. Following the State of the Union, MSNBC had 11 republican guests to only 2 democratic guests. One of those two democratic guests was the aforementioned Reagan, the moderate. On the GOP side were such strong personalities as Orrin Hatch, Rick Santorum and Pat Buchanan. This is how they stack the shows.
Following the Fox model, MSNBC went out and got themselves a loud voice for their prime time PM slot. Joe Scarborough headlines for MSNBC at ten o’clock. What did Mr. Scarborough do prior to pretending to be a journalist? He was a member of Congress, for the GOP. Offering no apology, Mr. Scarborough was also spotted in the election run-up at a Pro-Bush rally, as a fan, not a journalist. Hmm, I guess objectivity is not on the MSNBC agenda. Joe routinely has on such vitriolic guests as Anne Coulter, to fairly discuss the state of affairs in this country. Please.
Besides hosts and panels, story selection is paramount. The owners of these mainstream media sources are all owned by pro-Bush (because of his pro-deregulatory stance) folks who certainly decide what is covered, and when. In the election run-up we saw months of stories about the swift boat veterans, well after they had been exposed as liars. The coverage of the debates was horrific, expecting Bush to simply put a coherent sentence together to declare victory for him while holding John Kerry to a far higher standard.
Story selection and framing become crucial now, as we will see panels and guests to discuss the folly o
Gannon or is it Gang-BangOn-read the following and watch tonite,the creep news shows on TV!
Rummy-Rammy loves Assholes--Washington is full of ars-holes
************************************************************
The Power of the New Media, Jeff Gannon Dispatched Into Irrelevancy
By ANTHONY WADE
February 10, 2005
Never before has the new media flexed its muscles collectively, so well, as in the recent case of a liar named Jeff Gannon. Well, Jeff Gannon wasn’t actually his real name. That was a lie too.
It is becoming all too obvious that the myth of a liberal mainstream media is quite dead. This fantasy is held onto so dearly by right-wingers because it is part of their talking points. The reality is far easier to spot though. Talk radio is dominated completely by the right wing machine, with such shrill voices as Limbaugh and Hannity leading the pack. Then you look at cable news see that if a man named Colmes is the only voice of reason, then we are not in Kansas any more Dorothy. It is a matter of story selection, panel composition, and host personalities.
Fox News is nothing more than an extension of the White House and any fair evaluation of them must conclude that. A FAIR study done last year found an overwhelming majority of the prime time guests on the Brit Hume show, were right wing, while the tiny minority of alleged democrats, were actually middle of the road moderates. If it was only Fox we had to worry about, we would still be ok. The real damage Fox News perpetrates on the collective journalistic soul of this country is to make other news, appear mainstream. Next to Fox, the other big networks appear lefty, when in reality they also are lilting far to the right.
The next big cable giant is MSNBC with its flagship show, “Softball, with Chris Matthews”. Chris pretends to ask the tough questions, but a mere glance at his panels will tell the truth of the leanings of his show. In the run-up to the election, Ben Ginsberg was a regular panelist offering analysis. Ben Ginsberg is a republican election lawyer. On the democratic side, Mathews may have Ron Reagan Jr., who is more moderate than democratic or Andrea Mitchell, who is married to Alan Greenspan. This is the mold of the shows that displays its inherent bias. The people on the left are not strong lefty personalities, but rather are moderates who approach topics, fairly. The people on the right however, have an agenda, and that is to push the GOP talking points at all costs. Last night Matthews had on Susan Molinari, who could not stop gushing about the bold social security plan of the president. Her counterpart tried to play fairly, and have a rational discussion. The result was Molinari often shouting over her opponent to get the GOP message through, while Matthews stands by grinning. This is what media and reporting has come to in latter day America. As if this was not bad enough, MSNBC will not even portray equal amounts, of the disproportionate pundits. Following the State of the Union, MSNBC had 11 republican guests to only 2 democratic guests. One of those two democratic guests was the aforementioned Reagan, the moderate. On the GOP side were such strong personalities as Orrin Hatch, Rick Santorum and Pat Buchanan. This is how they stack the shows.
Following the Fox model, MSNBC went out and got themselves a loud voice for their prime time PM slot. Joe Scarborough headlines for MSNBC at ten o’clock. What did Mr. Scarborough do prior to pretending to be a journalist? He was a member of Congress, for the GOP. Offering no apology, Mr. Scarborough was also spotted in the election run-up at a Pro-Bush rally, as a fan, not a journalist. Hmm, I guess objectivity is not on the MSNBC agenda. Joe routinely has on such vitriolic guests as Anne Coulter, to fairly discuss the state of affairs in this country. Please.
Besides hosts and panels, story selection is paramount. The owners of these mainstream media sources are all owned by pro-Bush (because of his pro-deregulatory stance) folks who certainly decide what is covered, and when. In the election run-up we saw months of stories about the swift boat veterans, well after they had been exposed as liars. The coverage of the debates was horrific, expecting Bush to simply put a coherent sentence together to declare victory for him while holding John Kerry to a far higher standard.
Story selection and framing become crucial now, as we will see panels and guests to discuss the folly of Bush’s social security scam. People will sit at home and watch and think they are getting news, and analysis. In reality they are being sold, a product. That product is a bad deal for social security. Bush will send the positive spin out through his talk radio propaganda machine and then turn it over to Fox News. Soon, it will filter down to the MSNBC of the world and eventually it will be difficult to differentiate between what is real, and what is message. Unless, you turn to the new media.
The new media is online. It is not pre-bought, packaged, and sold. Tonight on Fox we see an “exclusive” interview by Sean Hannity of Karl Rove. What ensues is twenty minutes of the most ridiculous softball questions and pandering, whose sole purpose is only to allow Bush unscripted minutes to pimp his positions, under the guise of journalism. The amazing thing is that Hannity shares his show with an alleged lefty, Alan Colmes, but Colmes was not granted to share in this “exclusive”. This is not journalism, it is propaganda. It is not an “exclusive”; it is a pre-planned pimp session, where Rove got to sell the social security scam while Hannity stands by playing the interested journalist. Hannity offers no corrections, when Rove exaggerates or lies but instead, plays blame the democrats. This represents the basest form of journalism as it is really state-sponsored propaganda.
The new media is not for sale. The new media stood up recently when a fellow calling himself Jeff Gannon started popping up at White House press conferences. Gannon was often called on by Scott McClellan, or even Bush, especially when the press conference was not going well. Gannon would serve up the most biased, partisan, ridiculous questions imaginable. Bloggers and new media took notice and started digging. Turns out that Jeff Gannon was not a journalist, he was just playing one for the administration. He was representing a news agency that was also fake. Talon News, it turns out was just a front for an organization called GOPUSA. So, we have a fake journalist, working for a fake news agency, allowed into every White House press briefing for the apparent sole purpose of giving Bush or his representative a breather during press conferences. Gannon’s resume on the Talon News site, stated that he was a “graduate” of the Leadership Institute Broadcast School of Journalism. This turned out to actually be a two day seminar. I had done an article about this, found here:
http://opednews.com/wade_012905_bush_whores.htm
and the very next day the Talon site had removed the resume. It would not end there though. The tireless work of media matters and bloggers everywhere, revealed more and more into this story. It turned out that Jeff Gannon was not even Jeff Gannon. His real name appears to be Jim Guckert and he is allegedly also involved in gay-military escorts styled websites. Not withstanding his personal peccadilloes, what is far more offensive is his goodbye message left today on jeffgannon.com:
“Because of the attention being paid to me I find it is no longer possible to effectively be a reporter for Talon News. In consideration of the welfare of me and my family I have decided to return to private life.”
Spare us the sob story Jeff, or whatever name you want to go by. You never were a reporter, THAT is the point Jeff. You lied your way through life pretending to be a graduate of something related to journalism when it was really a two day seminar. You affiliated yourself with a partisan organization that then created a fake news organization. You lied every day of your life and now you expect anyone to feel bad for you? Please. You are not leaving because of the welfare of your family; you are leaving because you got busted.
Jeff Gannon was a liar and a plant by the Bush administration in the White House press pool. His sole function was to set up silly questions to allow the administration to pontificate about topics they wished to discuss, under the guise of journalism. He is only a microcosm of how this administration thinks it can manipulate, or even create the news. Today it was revealed that there will be a “Pentagon” channel available on the Dish Network. That is right America; your government will produce the entire network devoted to the military. They will package war and death for you and bring it right into your living room. Welcome to George W. Bush’s America.
Jeff Gannon is not the core of the problem, hell, he wasn’t even Jeff Gannon. What he represents, is the embodiment of state-sponsored journalism, more affectionately known as propaganda. He represents what is totally wrong with the system today. You want proof, look who is defending Jeff Gannon today. Sean Hannity was quoted as saying that Gannon was, “a terrific Washington bureau chief and White House correspondent.” The same Sean Hannity who then went on to pretend to be a journalist by allowing Karl Rove to read off his talking points in an “interview”. Howard Kurtz on CNN actually painted Jeff Gannon as a victim of the mean bloggers who investigated his personal life.
Are you kidding me? Memo to Howard and Sean. The man’s name was not really Jeff Gannon, he was lying. He was not a journalist, he was lying. He worked for a fake news organization, he was lying. Are you following me? A man with a fake name, fake credentials, and working for a fake news organization was granted free and unfettered access to the White House press pool, for the apparent sole purpose of bailing out the President or his representative. The story here is how the government planted a fake reporter in their pool to further their propaganda efforts against the people of this country. Let’s see if Sean or Howard covers that story or if they are just whores for this administration.
The new media has spoken. Jeff Gannon is just a blip on the radar that went out today. He is representative of something far more sinister in this country. He is representative of a government that thinks it can frame, create, or distort the truth. You will see it over the next few months. Bush will be on the road, pimping his social security scam. Word is out already that he has refused to take any questions at his pre-arranged publicity stops. He will not let anyone with a dissenting opinion attend any such event. He then will talk at you for an hour about how important it is for you to let him take two trillion dollars out of the social security funds, and then will not even let any reporter ask a question. Maybe he found out that Jeff Gannon would not be there anymore for him to rely on.
There is power in the new media and that power, is the truth.
Anthony Wade, a contributing writer to opednews.com, is dedicated to educating the populace to the lies and abuses of the government. He is a 37-year-old independent writer from New York with political commentary articles seen on multiple websites. A Christian progressive and professional Rehabilitation Counselor working with the poor and disabled, Mr. Wade believes that you can have faith and hold elected officials accountable for lies and excess.
Anthony Wade’s Archive: http://www.opednews.com/archiveswadeanthony.htm
Email Anthony: takebacktheus@yahoo.com
Contribute $$ to OpEdNews
The Power of the New Media, Jeff Gannon Dispatched Into Irrelevancy
By ANTHONY WADE
February 10, 2005
Never before has the new media flexed its muscles collectively, so well, as in the recent case of a liar named Jeff Gannon. Well, Jeff Gannon wasn’t actually his real name. That was a lie too.
It is becoming all too obvious that the myth of a liberal mainstream media is quite dead. This fantasy is held onto so dearly by right-wingers because it is part of their talking points. The reality is far easier to spot though. Talk radio is dominated completely by the right wing machine, with such shrill voices as Limbaugh and Hannity leading the pack. Then you look at cable news see that if a man named Colmes is the only voice of reason, then we are not in Kansas any more Dorothy. It is a matter of story selection, panel composition, and host personalities.
Fox News is nothing more than an extension of the White House and any fair evaluation of them must conclude that. A FAIR study done last year found an overwhelming majority of the prime time guests on the Brit Hume show, were right wing, while the tiny minority of alleged democrats, were actually middle of the road moderates. If it was only Fox we had to worry about, we would still be ok. The real damage Fox News perpetrates on the collective journalistic soul of this country is to make other news, appear mainstream. Next to Fox, the other big networks appear lefty, when in reality they also are lilting far to the right.
The next big cable giant is MSNBC with its flagship show, “Softball, with Chris Matthews”. Chris pretends to ask the tough questions, but a mere glance at his panels will tell the truth of the leanings of his show. In the run-up to the election, Ben Ginsberg was a regular panelist offering analysis. Ben Ginsberg is a republican election lawyer. On the democratic side, Mathews may have Ron Reagan Jr., who is more moderate than democratic or Andrea Mitchell, who is married to Alan Greenspan. This is the mold of the shows that displays its inherent bias. The people on the left are not strong lefty personalities, but rather are moderates who approach topics, fairly. The people on the right however, have an agenda, and that is to push the GOP talking points at all costs. Last night Matthews had on Susan Molinari, who could not stop gushing about the bold social security plan of the president. Her counterpart tried to play fairly, and have a rational discussion. The result was Molinari often shouting over her opponent to get the GOP message through, while Matthews stands by grinning. This is what media and reporting has come to in latter day America. As if this was not bad enough, MSNBC will not even portray equal amounts, of the disproportionate pundits. Following the State of the Union, MSNBC had 11 republican guests to only 2 democratic guests. One of those two democratic guests was the aforementioned Reagan, the moderate. On the GOP side were such strong personalities as Orrin Hatch, Rick Santorum and Pat Buchanan. This is how they stack the shows.
Following the Fox model, MSNBC went out and got themselves a loud voice for their prime time PM slot. Joe Scarborough headlines for MSNBC at ten o’clock. What did Mr. Scarborough do prior to pretending to be a journalist? He was a member of Congress, for the GOP. Offering no apology, Mr. Scarborough was also spotted in the election run-up at a Pro-Bush rally, as a fan, not a journalist. Hmm, I guess objectivity is not on the MSNBC agenda. Joe routinely has on such vitriolic guests as Anne Coulter, to fairly discuss the state of affairs in this country. Please.
Besides hosts and panels, story selection is paramount. The owners of these mainstream media sources are all owned by pro-Bush (because of his pro-deregulatory stance) folks who certainly decide what is covered, and when. In the election run-up we saw months of stories about the swift boat veterans, well after they had been exposed as liars. The coverage of the debates was horrific, expecting Bush to simply put a coherent sentence together to declare victory for him while holding John Kerry to a far higher standard.
Story selection and framing become crucial now, as we will see panels and guests to discuss the folly o
- Gannon has White House press credentials - HOW? —OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD, Fri Feb 11 17:16
- Speeches and Writings - Leadersip Institute —Morton C. Blackwell, Fri Feb 11 18:16
- I'd think we were being lied to. "Jeff Gannon" highlights —A CIA OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD ASSETT, Fri Feb 11 17:46
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