Monday, October 29, 2007

fake news

One of the legacies of this era in American history will be how fake news became established. Not Daily Show/Colbert fake... but government-produced propaganda masking itself as objective news.

On the heels of the FEMA "press conference" comes this reminder from Tbogg about the fake news segments produced by the Bush administration. From the NYT story quoted:
Karen Ryan cringes at the phrase "covert propaganda." These are words for dictators and spies, and yet they have attached themselves to her like a pair of handcuffs.
Poor dear. Stop crying and grow some professional ethics.

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