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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Chris_ on October 19, 2009, 07:37:39 AM
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White House boasts: We 'control' news media
TEL AVIV – President Obama's presidential campaign focused on "making" the news media cover certain issues while rarely communicating anything to the press unless it was "controlled," White House Communications Director Anita Dunn disclosed to the Dominican government at a videotaped conference.
"Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn't absolutely control," said Dunn.
"One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters," said Dunn, referring to Plouffe, who was Obama's chief campaign manager.
"We just put that out there and made them write what Plouffe had said as opposed to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter. So it was very much we controlled it as opposed to the press controlled it," Dunn said.
MORE (http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=113347)
Anyone not aware of this has been under a rock since Feb.
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Fortunately , they do not control Fox News, nor do they control the internet, YET. I think that if they thought they could get away with it, they would ban Fox reporters from the White House press briefings. They may try that, yet.
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Sooo, how's that First Amendment thing working out lately?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality
A cult of personality arises when a country's leader uses mass media to create an idealized and heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.[1] Cults of personality are often found in dictatorships and Stalinist governments.
Sound familiar?
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Newsweek's now calling Fox Un-American ? Die Newsweek, Die already :p
Here's Greta's rant, I won't link to Newsweek here....
http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/10/19/newsweek-fox-un-american/
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Fox should just have the video of Hillary's "dissent is patriotic" speech on a loop, and play it after every talking head from the 0ministration is on their network.
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Fox needs to run a commercial featuring clips of Barry Obama contradicting himself at various times, then have a closing tag: every issue has two sides.
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With this actually being said by one of Obimbo's people, I wonder if the MSM will finally try to play journalist?
If I worked for them, I'd be feeling some serious anger, frustration and embarrasment.
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With this actually being said by one of Obimbo's people, I wonder if the MSM will finally try to play journalist?
If I worked for them, I'd be feeling some serious anger, frustration and embarrasment.
It's not gonna happen. The majority of the MSM are hardcore leftists. They knew what the 0Bama campaign and now his administration was/is doing. They don't have a problem with it.
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Plus, most of the MSM organizations are losing money/readers/viewers to other media. Of course they won't mind if the 0ministration freezes them out or calls them "not news", then they can rationalize losing their followers to "entertainment" rather than admit they lost out to a better product.
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No wonder Fox slams them all in the ratings.
Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for October 15, 2009
P2+ Total Day
FNC – 1,507,000 viewers
CNN – 713,000 viewers
MSNBC –428,000 viewers
CNBC – 187,000 viewers
HLN –384,000 viewers
P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 2,614,000viewers
CNN— 848,000 viewers
MSNBC –842,000 viewers
CNBC – 184,000 viewers
HLN – 607,000 viewers
SOURCE (http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/10/16/cable-news-ratings-for-thursday-october-15-2009/30690#more-30690)
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Radio host Matt Friedeman was talking about Obama and Fox News this morning and characterized the Obama Administration's position on Fox News as being like Nixon's enemies list. Friedeman said that since Obama's approval numbers even from his supporters started dropping, the rhetoric against Fox News increased and that this is because liberals already hate Fox News. Obama is trying to keep his base approval up by maligning Fox News, which the liberals love to see happen. Certainly seems to be working. Obama's approval among Democrats is very high.
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This whole administration is childish and immature. Did any other president ever go after or single out a specific news organisation? I don't recall one. Even Bush I & II sat down to talk to the libturds who were constantly bashing them. The reason is simple: They had CLASS. Something Dinglebarry and his sycophants lack.