Bush campaign AGAIN issues ad disguised as NEWS item!

[Bluebear]

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has promoted its education law with a video that comes across as a news story but fails to make clear the reporter involved was paid with taxpayer money.

The government used a similar approach this year in promoting the new Medicare law and drew a rebuke from the investigative arm of Congress, which found the videos amounted to propaganda in violation of federal law.

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The video and documents emerged through a Freedom of Information Act request by People for the American Way, a liberal group that contends the department is spending public money on a political agenda. The group sought details on a $700,000 contract Ketchum received in 2003 from the Education Department.

The story ends with the voice of a woman saying, "In Washington, I'm Karen Ryan reporting."

It does not identify the government as the source of the report. It also fails to make clear the person purporting to be a reporter was someone hired for the promotional video.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041010/ap_on_el_pr/school_ads&cid=694&ncid=1963&sid=96378798

[acmavm]

1. Surprise, surprise. I wonder how many campaign laws they've violated

not that it mattes, you'd expect nothing less from these guys.

Crap, that's a horrible thought. What have we come to when we expect the pResident and his cabal to be a bunch of crooks? I am suddenly very depressed by this.

[Out the Parasites]

2. How do they hold their head up high and call themselves moral?

How do they sleep at night...in a coffin? Will they stop at nothing? Is there nothing that is too low for them to go? WTF


PS: love the penguin gif :)

[nonconformist]

3. Fool me once, shame on.... shame on you.

Fool me... you can't get fooled again.

[expatriot]

4. dude, this is so, so, so bad... this is so evil. so evil.

state run media. state f-in run media.

[Catt03]

5. Oh..it was Karen

Read somewhere that she is just so flattered that people think she is a "real" journalist. Never wrote a thing in her life.

[frylock]

6. maybe the kerry camp can get dave chappelle to do one of these spots..

he can dress up in whiteface and do his anchorman character, Chuck Taylor.

[KharmaTrain]

7. SINCLAIR ALERT...

For folks who live in cities with Sinclair TV stations, please watch your local newscasts carefully for Government associated videos like these that are integrated into newscasts as "news". As noted above, this is clearly an FEC violation that needs to be documented for future use.

Also, it'd be great if we can post Sinclair station alerts in the Media area where folks can post what they're seeing. For example, if there's an over-abundance of regime talking heads appearing on newscasts that are members of stink tanks like the AEI and Heritage Institute that are used as "experts" or commentators.

Sinclair's actions this past year require further investigation, but this can't happen without eyes and ears paying close attention and starting a "paper trail" of abuses station by station.

[Bluebear]

8. Excellent call to action, IMR

[KharmaTrain]

9. If Folks Want...

I will start a thread in the Media section where we can start a Sinclair Watch...then pass the word along so everyone's rage and resources can be consentrated in one place here and we can really start to coordinate and organize.

Cheers!

On Edit: Sorry, I don't want to waste time and angst...especially as we need to use our resources wisely in these last weeks, but there's life after Nov. 2 and lots of things we need to start looking ahead to no matter what the outcome.

If folks are interested in starting this process, count me in, and I'll do whatever I can to contribute in this cause.

[KharmaTrain]

10. Uh Oh...It's Sinking Off Page One...

Think this needs it's own Sinclair Alert thread?

Or should I just go and watch the Bunnypants kissass special on CNNservative?

:kick:

[Bluebear]

11. Yahoo front page now

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041010/ap_on_el_pr/school_ads_3

[Guaranteed]

12. Karen Ryan again!!

Goddamn you, "Karen Ryan!"

Frickin' WASP!!

(I'm a WASP too)