Media Finally Shows Concern over Bush and the Media.
Writing by on Monday, 28 of February , 2005 at 4:29 pm
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Well for the first time in some time the main stream media has decided that maybe, just maybe there is something a bit foul in the White House Press Corp, or it was a very slow news day. A story about the whole Gannon/Guckert scandal, compounded with the revelations that the Bush Administration has been paying for good press has made the front page of a major market newspaper.
On the front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer, political analyst, Dick Polman wrote a story "White House stirs debate on media tactics.”
Some excerpts,
And his employer, a conservative Web site operated by Texas Republican activists, having already erased all traces of “Gannon,” announced Thursday that it was unplugging its Web site to “reevaluate operations.”
But the Jeff Gannon/James Guckert saga is far from over. It remains unclear how a graduate of a conservative training program, someone with no previous journalism experience, someone whose writings were often lifted directly from White House press releases, still managed to gain access to the White House press room, where he spent two years lobbing gentle questions at the press secretary and the President.
And some political analysts who monitor President Bush’s relations with the media insist that Gannon (who, referring to Democrats, recently asked Bush, “How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?”) should not be viewed as an isolated case. Rather, they contend that Gannon is symptomatic of a broader White House strategy to undermine the traditional media by disseminating the Bush message in creative new ways.
They go on to say
Larry Gross, who runs the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California, says: “Richard Nixon hated the press, Bill Clinton hated the press - but they accepted the basic rules of the game. Bush has a strategy of discrediting, end-running, and even faking the news. Those prepackaged videos sent to local TV stations ‘looked’ like news, much the way Gannon ‘looked’ like a reporter. We’re seeing something new: Potemkin-village journalism.”
The reported here did a great job of posting the facts in the case, and the fact that it is on the front page, makes it a real story (Almost 5 weeks after it broke). If you took this whole saga, and replace the name Bush with Clinton, it would have taken less than 5 mines to make the front page.
The Gannon thing is debunking one of the greatest myths the republicans love to hang on to, that the media is a liberal haven, if so, you would think they would have jumped on this from day one, like the countless other scandals of the Bush Administration.
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Comment by Anonymous
Made Friday, 4 of November , 2005 at 11:24 pm
Response to the Damned:
Those are some pretty fascinating vie
Response to the Damned:
Those are some pretty fascinating views; I always respect other peoples points of view, and if I’m not in agreement, I listen and try to learn someting that maybe I have missed; but I have to tell you you’re out there pal! I don’t want everyone to think like me, because if they did this would be one boring planet; besides balance is very important; but come on.
From what I have read, this is one very angry site. The mind set of this generation I really question, I feel sorry for all of you, really. Synicism, polarization, hopelessness, disdane for your fellow man because of his religious beliefs or no beliefs at all; abortion ( you people don’t understand the consequences of abortion). Belief in Conspiracies, in everything: no faith in government or country; blasphem the Lord; no respect for anything or anyone, on and on. These are observations from an outsider; sounds like I mean to condemn, but I’m not honestly, mere observation, you can’t help but notice.
What is going on and where are we headed? Someday this generation will be in charge, and I’m wondering if you can handle it? I know you’re blowing me off cause I don’t understand or know what I’m talking about; another Jesus freak, so all of this rehtoric is meaningless. Maybe so, but I want to leave you with this prayer: Even if you’re not into religion and can’t stand fundamental whack-jobs, as I have seen it stated; bear with me on this one, this really is a kool prayer; for your self, take a moment and reflect:
The Prayer of St. Francis of Assissi
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace
Where there is hatred let me sow love
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doublt, faith
Where there is despair, hope
Where there is darkness, light and where there is sadness, joyl
O Lord, grant that I may not so much seek to be consloed but to console
To be understood as to understand
To be loved as to love
For it is in giving that I receive
It is in pardoning that I am pardoned;
And it is in dying that I am born to eternal life.
Amen.
Christianity is truly a paradox………..
Comment by Anonymous
Made Saturday, 5 of November , 2005 at 12:39 am
Vince thanks for stopping by…
Vince thanks for stopping by…
I am sorry you see this site as angry, I guess you are not use to have your info handed over to you in a raw form, without the over processing that often produces something that it worthless, and not very thought provoking.
As for your prayer, thank you for offering it…
I do not see Christianity as a paradox; I see it as a cowering mass that has allowed very evil people to co-opt it for political and monetary gain. Until those that claim to practice the teachings of Jesus take their faith back from those that are using it for pure evil, do not come here and attempt to
