Why Aren't We Deluging Gonzales' AG Office With Calls & Emails????

The White House illegally puts out fake news reports, and the Justice Department does nothing; ( From Will Pitt - Truthout)


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And Now, the Counterfeit News
The New York Times Editorial

Wednesday 16 March 2005

The Bush administration has come under a lot of criticism for its attempts to fob off government propaganda as genuine news reports. Whether federal agencies are purchasing the services of supposedly independent columnists or making videos extolling White House initiatives and then disguising them as TV news reports, that's wrong. But it is time to acknowledge that the nation's news organizations have played a large and unappetizing role in deceiving the public.

As documented this week in an article in The Times by David Barstow and Robin Stein, more than 20 federal agencies, including the State Department and the Defense Department, now create fake news clips. The Bush administration spent $254 million in its first four years on contracts with public relations firms, more than double the amount spent by the Clinton administration.

Most of these tapes are very skillfully done, including "interviews" that seem genuine and "reporters" who look much like the real thing. Only sophisticated viewers would easily recognize that these videos are actually unpaid commercial announcements for the White House or some other part of the government. Some of the videos clearly cross the line into the proscribed territory of propaganda, and the Government Accountability Office says at least two were illegally distributed.

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have to work so much harder.
Do you think this guy gives a shit about the feelings of the american public?

which he is sworn to uphold......

AND HE'S NOT DOING IT !!!!!!