>>>Yup, sending the moonbats to the corner for a permanent timeout. NPR/PBS is but one front in which we’re taking back the control of the signal.”

Who’s “we”? And what is so “moonbat” about the home of “Firing Line” by William F. Buckley and the “Wall Street Journal Editorial Board”?

–Cobra

Yup, sending the moonbats to the corner for a permanent timeout. NPR/PBS is but one front in which we’re taking back the control of the signal.

Um, there’s quite a bit more going on here than just the advancement of an agenda.

I was wondering when postmodernism would make its way onto the blogosphere.

As for the ‘fact’ budget being twice as much as that spent by the Clinton administration, that is meaningless without context. Who is spending how much for what? We have new agencies, new initiatives which all have to do their PR — which is part of their job to inform the public.

So what? Give us some apples to apples comparison. All I’ve seen are apples to oranges comparisons including these howlers:

““We strongly disagree [with] and are very disappointed by the administration’s actions,” Walker says. “This is not just about what’s arguably legal; it’s about what’s right. Taxpayers have the right to know if and when the government is trying to influence them with their own dollars.””

To which I say the public has a right to know if and when the MSM is trying to influence them. And speaking of tax-funded entities, is Mr Walker also directing some of his rage at PBS/NPR? No? Why not?

Here’s another:
““Deceiving the American people about government policies and proposals is not the American way,” Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., wrote to President Bush after those revelations. “Propaganda should not be coming out of the White House.””

And deceiving the American people about chappaquiddick, Bush’s policies and proposals is not the American way. Blah, blah… Propaganda should not be coming out of the MSM/DNC

Yawn!!! Pot meet kettle. Methinks if the MSM can’t be bothered to report the good news, somebody has to do it. Actually I think the sturm & drang is due to the fact that the MSM shapes its message to the blue State stronghold while ignoring the so-called flyovers and the MSM/DNc is all up in a snit that the govt manages to get its message out to those people. My, my life is so unfair.

>>>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.”
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031605O.shtml

So this issue is beyond liberal and conservative. It’s about FACT and FICTION.

–Cobra

In communications law and policy broadcasting — which is free — is usually treated differently than cable TV — which costs money.

Just goes to show, people on the public dole just hate the thot of actually cutting loose and making their own way in the world.

Rocky