The Bush administration's chosen journalists Sean Hannity and Pam "Atlas"

[thepurpose]

The Bush administration has adopted an array of tactics to control the news, from threatening journalists with criminal prosecution to paying pundits and manufacturing and distributing propaganda videos disguised as taped news segments. One such tactic, used with increasing frequency and obviousness, is that when Bush officials need to do an interview in order to address some brewing crisis, they will sit with only the most sycophantic and Bush-loving "journalists" who will shower them with praise and adoration in lieu of scrutiny and real questions.

When Dick Cheney needed to do an interview over the hunting scandal, he ran to sit with Bush lover Brit Hume, who, throughout the "interview," sounded like a loving, supportive son as he comforted his kind-hearted dad during a troubled time. Hume had previously conducted one-on-one worship sessions in the White House with the President which would have made Kim Jong Il's press aides envious. Cheney's favorite venue for defending the government's policies is Rush Limbaugh's show. And on Friday, when the Israel-Lebanon U.N. Resolution was announced, Condoleezza Rice chose to discuss it with geopolitical analyst and widely respected, hard-hitting journalist Sean Hannity, who asked her "questions" like this . . .


HANNITY: Our war, the president said yesterday, is with Islamic fascists. Some people took issue with the use of that word today, but that's really what it is, isn't it? Isn't it? Is that the right terminology?


and like this . . .


HANNITY: A lot of people have been using the analogy of the rise of Nazism, and the world fell asleep. There were a few people that tried to wake the world up, Winston Churchill the obvious example.

RICE: Yes.

HANNITY: There were other people that thought that they could negotiate with Hitler their time and have peace in their time. Do you see that analogy? Is that applicable in this particular case?

and . . .

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/08/bush-administrations-chosen.html

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. It isn't news or journalism, it's straight forward bald faced

government propaganda. Apparently cable tv is unrestricted in this regard. If you wanted to put up a channel promoting white supremacy & could pay for it, I guess nobody could stop you.

[dapper]

2. Even when Hannity is wrong.. Did you see rule #2?

I remember listening to him one time and the more he was proven wrong, the louder and obnoxious he became. I don't know if it is for show - but there are things he believes that makes me wonder if he has a screw loose.

Dap