Not only secretive, but also mendacious. The Bush Administration wants Government to get out of providing economic security for the citizens and instead move into the news business. It is no longer the MacLuhanesque "the medium is the message" but "the message is not the message if it is not my message" sung with Ethel Merman's lungs across the proscenium.
That is why it is essential that we all mobilize to shout our message back, to keep the Government's disinformation at bay. I never thought that I would have to confront this kind of Francoist manipulation in the "home of the free". Talk of a letdown!
The New York Times > Washington > Under Bush, a New Age of Prepackaged Television News
The Beginning of the End.
12 years ago
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