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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 05:32 AM
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Bush Administration Media Collusion Memos Surface
Anyone seen this????

Bush Administration Media Collusion Memos Surface


Monday, April 3, 2006

WASHINGTON — In a disturbing turn of events for an administration already plagued by sagging poll numbers and waning support for the Iraq war, Friday's revelation that the Bush Administration issued direct guidelines for programming to media outlets is troubling even die-hard conservatives.

Late Friday a series of memos between senior Bush Administration officials and management at Viacom, Inc. were leaked calling for the media giant to focus on stories and programming choices that "reinforce the Administration's positions" and to "ignore and/or discredit points of view in opposition to the Bush Administration's foreign policy objectives for the purposes of National Security."



http://www.guerrillafunk.com/story/0,3566,190215,00.html
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GeorgeGist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 05:34 AM
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1. This was debunked elsewhere...
I don't have DU search priveleges, however, so can't give you the link.
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 05:38 AM
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2. no reference can be found on google news
this report is either a fake, or no "real" news outlet is carrying it (unlikely, since source is AP), or google is censoring this content.
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 05:39 AM
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3. The LBN thread was locked because it wasn't credible...
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monarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 05:59 AM
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5. Did anyone check the link to the fake news
website http://www.guerrillafunk.com/thoughts/doc000025.html
They now have an explanation and it looks like it has a lot of really neat to use against the media. I hope that it's not all fake stuff cuz the topics are great. The only one that I remember had something to do with Alito.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 06:29 AM
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7. Thanks
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 05:43 AM
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4. America needs to demand the truth be put back into the reporting
of the news. What the media has done to America is criminal. America has become a third rate political cesspool, with the help of these corrorate liars for hire in the media. The truth is a rare find on TV, or in the newspapers now. Mrs. Clinton was 100% correct, about the "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" and it's even spread to the DLC it seems.
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sojourner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 06:17 AM
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6. the OP is a link to a satirical site..........not a real story. n/t
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 07:47 AM
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8. The story he links to may not be real, but...
I don't doubt for a second that what the story in the OP is telling, is in fact, not far from the reality of the situation. I don't understand all I know about Bush/Rove's hold over the media! I think that the Dictator in Chief has been dictating all the major "stories" we've been told, all along!

Stories like the one at the link, are meant to make the truth, look more like a conspiracy "theory," than the actual conspiracies, in progress in the USA. Propaganda is a mad science, but is a science, none the less! And the Bush propagandists have fine tuned Herr Joseph Goebells's mad science, to a razor edge. It is that razor edge, that has whittled away our democracy and has set us on the same road that Germany once goose stepped down, to ruin.
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