Bush Ad Appears To Be News Story

[LWolf]

In case you missed it; this was posted in LBN, twice, but didn't last long.

Please read the whole article; there is a lot there! Summary: Bush is "rebuked" by Congress for misleading ads that appear to be news stories, complete with "reporters" paid to promote Bush legislation in connection with the new medicare law. He trots out the same technique to promote part of NCLB; clear propaganda at work. The "tutoring" referred to, by the way, is outsourced to for-profit tutoring "companies" "approved" by the Bush admin.


http://news.bostonherald.com/election/view.bg?articleid=48564

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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.
The Education Department also has paid for rankings of newspaper coverage of the No Child Left Behind law, a centerpiece of the president's domestic agenda. Points are awarded for stories that say President Bush and the Republican Party are strong on education, among other factors.
The news ratings also rank individual reporters on how they cover the law, based on the points system set up by Ketchum, a public relations firm hired by the government.

[kimchi]

1. Thanks so much.

I missed it earlier. Good ammo for the Bushlickers.

[LWolf]

2. This ought to be good ammo.

How much more blatant can the propaganda get?

[liberal_in_GA]

3. Air America was talking about this today...

comparing it to 1984. Too true.

:scared:

[LWolf]

4. I suspect that

if Bush ever really did read a book, rather than just hold it while the nation in his care is attacked,

it was probably Orwell. His entire presidency has been so Orwellian as to be almost satirical.