Mark Crispin Miller letter in BuzzFlash predicting massive propaganda

[Skittles]

Subject: Damage to Bush

The reason Bush keeps taking heavy damage on his failure to respond to Hurricane Katrina is not because the media became suddenly more bold or more inquisitive, as is argued in several op-ed pieces around the nation.

Rather, there are two reasons Bush gets hammered each night on the network news and in newspapers all over the world. First, there are no DoD-controlled press pools similar to the ones covering the Iraq War. This lack of government manipulation allows reporters to freely provide on-the-spot live and factual coverage exposing the lies and the incompetence of FEMA, the GOP, and Bush himself. And, second, there is no massive Pentagon propaganda machine set up in New Orleans or other stricken areas to provide their flat-earth version of "balanced" reporting with dozens of press releases and subject matter experts readily available.

Therefore, I predict two things. First, there will be a massive influx of public affairs con artists from military and FEMA-related government agencies into the region who will relentlessly pound home the message that all is OK. And, second, this new propaganda presence will restrict the media with pool coverage or an outright ban on entry into New Orleans, thus allowing the government to dominate the press coverage of the recover with their message all the time. Without coverage of screaming women and children demanding food, Bush's horrible and deadly failure may slowly recede from view as the water is pumped from the new "Lake New Orleans.'

(read the entire letter at http://buzzflash.com/mailbag/05/09/mai05241.html
second letter down)

[FormerDittoHead]

1. 2nd point is BINGO

>And, second, this new propaganda presence will restrict the media with pool coverage or an outright ban on entry into New Orleans, thus allowing the government to dominate the press coverage of the recover with their message all the time.

I predict that "snipers" will force reporters to only enter escorted...

[Ravenseye]

3. already on the way

aren't they preventing any additional press 0from entering? only a matter of time.

[blondeatlast]

6. I'd love to see some Viet Nam era reporters take them to task

over that issue.

Remember when real reporters weren't concerned about maintaining their pretty, pretty hair?

I'm beginning to see elelets of that spirit again.

What would the Guard and Army do--shoot a rogue reporter to "protect" him/her from snipers???

[John Q. Citizen]

2. This has been my analysis all along. The problem is when there

are reporters with video live on the ground talking to the anchor, you can't hide the fact that what the Gov. spokesman is saying is a bunch of lies.

There was no way to punish the reporters by denying acccess or to spin what the camera is showing.

[Skittles]

4. and so it starts

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2072270

[Gman]

5. The liberal MSM refuses to report the good things in New Orleans

and the liberal MSM loves the weather and hates America. Traitors!

[Skittles]

7. OMG GMAN

PRICELESS :thumbsup:

[Gman]

10. With apologies to Tom Tomorrow!

[SujiwanKenobee]

8. Guess it will be time for "Guerilla Reporting"

People hiding out away from the evacuation teams, surreptitiously snapping photos or making live camera reports from hushed locations... A return to ballsy reporting in hostile conditions.

[Inland]

9. But here's four items that will make effort to restrict coverage fail.

1) It isn't just New Orleans. The press will soon be arriving at the coastal areas and finding piles of bodies.

2) Good luck keeping reporters out of New Orleans. If they don't demand to be let in legally, they'll go illegally. Whaddya going to do, jail them? Where?

3) Dispersal of displaced persons around the country means every local news outlet can report their stories.

4) First responders and localities that offered to send equipment and trained help are telling their stories about being turned away by FEMA.

[KoKo]

13. I pray you are correct. n/t

[KoKo]

11. Yep....Cheney was down there in "Full InCharge Mode." Everything is

fine and on schedule and we appreciate the courage and hard work and positive attitude of the folks here who have turned their attention to rebuilding." "The National Guard and Officials are working to restore power and the Restoration effort is underway." Blah...Blah..Blah.

To Cheney it was obvious it was "no big deal." He said folks recovered from Hurricane Camille and they will from this. It didn't register that there hasn't been any other Hurricane in that area that was like Katrina.

He said he had been watching it all on Television. Shucks...I thought he might be having hourly briefings from FEMA or HOMELAND SECURITY. Silly Me....He and Chertoff and Brown get their news from the TV! Just like the rest of us...Duhhhhh

[thebigidea]

12. it doesn't take Criswell to make that kind of prediction

[Q]

14. It's easy to control the news coming out of a war zone...

...which is why the Bush/Cheney pirates are turning New Orleans into a war zone.