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Old 01-12-2010, 07:43 PM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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The Power Of Propaganda

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Not content with its lapdog coverage of President Bush over the past decade, the Beltway press has adopted a new, super-soft way to deal with Bush's former vice president, Dick Cheney, as well as GOP media star Sarah Palin. Journalists have set aside what had been decades' worth of guidelines and embraced special new rules for how Cheney and Palin get treated. In a word, it's stenography.

That's how too many scribes have covered Cheney and Palin in recent months, allowing them to dispense tightly controlled pieces of information, which journalists then trumpet as breaking news. And yes, the trend is unprecedented in modern day American politics.
Stenography 101: How the press let Palin and Cheney rig the system | Media Matters for America
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Old 01-12-2010, 07:52 PM
 
Location: Chicagoland
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Media Matters?

The mouthpiece for obama and the democrat party.

What a bunch of whiners - they just can't stand that Palin's and Cheney's statements and criticism of obama get wide, wide play in the media.
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Old 01-12-2010, 08:04 PM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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Media Matters?

The mouthpiece for obama and the democrat party.

What a bunch of whiners - they just can't stand that Palin's and Cheney's statements and criticism of obama get wide, wide play in the media.
So you have noticed the "wide play" that Cheney gets in the media. That's good. Now ask yourself why.
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Old 01-12-2010, 08:30 PM
 
Location: Chicagoland
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Because he is a former VP, because he is calling obama on his lies, because there is NO ONE better that knows NS/FP and can speak on the issue.

Maybe you should send obama a email and tell him to stop flapping his lips and blaming the last administration.
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Old 01-12-2010, 08:43 PM
 
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Its more how obama gamed the public into supporting a 758 billion dollar stimulus by saying it would keep unemployed at 8% and build massive infrastructure imporvements when it has eqauled the big dig in boston for the entire USA by CNN 's count.The teachers unions,UAW and other specail interests have done very well by it.
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Old 01-12-2010, 08:44 PM
 
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Great article, odanny.
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Old 01-13-2010, 08:09 AM
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Media Matters?? LOL!
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