Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Watch the bouncing ball now, folks, and sing along

So many think this propaganda technique started
with Da Schrub.

He'd be lucky if he could start his car.

Bwahahahaha.
Under the Bush administration, the federal
government has aggressively used a well-
established tool of public relations: the
prepackaged, ready-to-serve news report that
major corporations have long distributed to TV
stations to pitch everything from headache
remedies to auto insurance. In all, at least 20
federal agencies, including the Defense
Department and the Census Bureau, have made and
distributed hundreds of television news segments
in the past four years, records and interviews
show. Many were subsequently broadcast on local
stations across the country without any
acknowledgement of the government's role in their
production.

Their reports generally avoid overt ideological
appeals. Instead, the government's news-making
apparatus has produced a quiet drumbeat of
broadcasts describing a vigilant and
compassionate administration.

Soon to be found out.

All of it.