The GOP media machine

I keep seeing these rosey reports exaggerating the economy's upside at Yahoo! News. You have to hand it to this White House for understanding how the news media competes for stories and that current headlines trump the one posted five minutes earlier. It keeps its media machine pumping out the slanted headlines over the real stuff by the second. Especially dealling with the economy. You'll read how the jobless rate has dropped in a headline but it won't mention how that rate is still at the bottom of the barrel for the first time since the last Bush administration. You'll see how less people are filing for unemployment in those White House manufactured headlines but you won't see mentioned that's because millions of people have given up on finding a job.

This is one of the most unreported on but most important stories of this GOP (I hesistate to call it a Bush-run administration) Machine that is running this White House. The GOP elite (both the ones IN government and those from the corporate boardrooms that finance and control the party) have an incredible band of media specialists working to tweak the news or take it over completely if only by winning the battle of competing headlines. This is the Madison Avenue crowd that has the best and the brightest money can hire to run its focus groups and come from polling and advertising backgrounds. They are in place at the White House and actually re-write reporters' stories when submitted to clarify certain techincial or policy fine points. They even own a network, Fox, and run its news under cover of "fair and balanced" reporting and use the disclaimer, "you decide", to get them off the hook on their slanted news. Hell, the GOP has even taken to forcing corporations to put GOP activists in as their lobbyists so as to keep the party line sacrosaint.

We're a democracy in name only today. Orwell's warnings play on deaf ears, drowned out by all those rosy commentaries on the TV and radio while the same headlines blind the print media.





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