MSM (that's mainstream media to those that don't regularly visit the blogesphere) has finally picked up the story on prepackaged "news" stories created by the federal government. They don't call it, "fake news," in the New York Times, but an extensive report was made investagating how these reports are made, who benefits and how and why they end up on local news telecast in markets large and small. The report makes it clear that government use of prepackeaged news reports started in Clinton's first term(!), but that the breadth and depth of it's use has been seriously ramped up buy the Bush Crime Family's (BCF) government. Why is this such a bad thing? It's not if you think that interviewees should know the questions that they'll be asked beforehand, and should get coaching to give the most dynamic responses. Nothing's wrong with it if you believe that Afghan gratitude towards the US for invading their country should be documented by the State Department (and taken from an Afghan in... Kansas City?!). And all of this is great, even if the viewer never gets a sniff that the "reporter," that they're watching isn't really a reporter, and doesn't work for the station that the viewer's watching, or for any news organization at all. This is just one aspect of the Bushies all out, covert, propaganda campaign against the American people, an aspect that has been called illegal by the non-partisan Government Accountability Office. Alberto Gonzalez and the rest of his justice department responded by sending a memo that said to ignore the GAO (just like they ignored, I mean ignore, the Geneva Conventions); but then, why would I expect the BCF to start caring about accountability now? Is it time to take to the streets yet???
