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Fleischer Defends the Media
The former White House spokesman says the media were tough on him in the run-up to the Iraq war.
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By Dan Froomkin [in his Washington Post blog, White House Watch]


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/06/09/BL2008060901108_Comments.html


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"Like no administration before it, the Bush administration has mastered what the media critic Walter Lippmann called 'the manufacture of consent' -- the use of 'psychological research, coupled with the modern means of communication,' to muster mass support for elite agendas. Staging photo-ops whose choreographed drama and camera-ready visuals ('Mission Accomplished') are intended to play to the emotions and overrule objections; reducing complicated geopolitical issues to black-or-white dualisms (Team America: World Police versus the Axis of Evil!); stonewalling the media, cherry-picking intelligence and parroting Karl Rove-approved talking points -- the Bush administration represents the apotheosis of government by spin control."

Dery writes that "the burgeoning genre of Bush administration tell-alls, of which McClellan's is only the latest, paints a portrait of a White House utterly unconcerned with facts yet fervently attentive to public opinion polls. It is a White House whose solution to every unhappy turn of events -- the Iraqi insurgency, Hurricane Katrina, a moribund economy -- is to treat it not as a real-world problem requiring a real-world solution but as a glitch in the Matrix, 'a perception problem' to be handled with the Message of the Day and the Theme of the Week."
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What more freakin' proof is needed that we're being given the Goering Treatment?

As a poet and student of research psychology, the Message Force Multipliers are spekaing my language. I hear them loud and clear.


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6/9/2008 3:33:32 PM
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