Court orders administration to stop making news-like promotions (Ahnuld)

[sabra]

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/13306209.htm

Court orders administration to stop making news-like promotions

Associated Press


SACRAMENTO - A superior court judge on Thursday ordered Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration to remove a state-produced video that was intended to look like an objective news report from a state Web site.

The ruling also said state agencies should not use public money to make similar videos in the future.

The decision by Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Lloyd Connelly came in a lawsuit filed last March by the California Nurses Association and two other unions. They claimed the production of two video news releases using state equipment and staff violated state law.

Because the videos were sent to television stations for broadcast, the unions said they amounted to little more than propaganda masquerading as news.

[Cha]

1. HaHa, shovelnator. you

propogandist pig.

[goclark]

2. Yes! Take that Arnold! nt

[Burried News]

3. Score: Nurses 2, Pump Head zero.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Excellent. So glad they called him on this.

Whatever possed him to do this after learning _Bush was dead wrong to do it himself? It makes him look even more stupid as well as dishonest.

[Angry Girl]

5. Can we stop the Bush administration too?

Where else are these fake newscasts going down?

Bush Shows No Remorse for Fake Newscasts
Despite a rising chorus of condemnation from journalists and media critics, the George W. Bush administration shows no signs of abandoning its distribution of taxpayer-funded "news" to U.S. newspapers, radio and television stations.
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=28063

A Strategy of Lies: How the White House Fed the Public a Steady Diet of Falsehoods
Colonel Sam Gardiner (USAF, Ret.) has identified 50 false news stories created and leaked by a secretive White House propaganda apparatus.
http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/smith_gar_on_us_govt_falsehoods.html

STOP NEWS FRAUD
http://www.freepress.net/propaganda /

Bush's War on the Press
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050509/alterman

Report Says Ex-Chief of Public TV Violated Federal Law
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/15/business/media/16cnd-broadcast.html?ex=1133586000&en=2dc078a878414c4d&ei=5070&pagewanted=print

CPB Report Tells Only Part of the Story
http://mediacitizen.blogspot.com/2005/11/cpb-report-tells-only-part-of-story.html

Cronyism and Secrecy Run Rampant at Corporation for Public Broadcasting
New president fills the CPB offices with partisan propagandists; Inspector General's report on political meddling by ex-chairman kept from the public
http://www.commoncause.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=194883&ct=1553457

A televisual fairyland
The US media is disciplined by corporate America into promoting the Republican cause
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1392770,00.html

A Fake End to Fake News
An act designed to end government propaganda is altered to the PR industry's approval.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/27314 /

EPA Paid Weather Channel for Videos
The Environmental Protection Agency paid the Weather Channel $40,000 to produce and broadcast several videos about ozone depletion, urban heat problems and the dangers of ultraviolet radiation as part of the Bush administration's efforts to inform the public about climate change, agency records show.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/17/AR2005071700892_pf.html

Education Department broke rules by paying columnist, GAO says
The Education Department violated a ban on covert propaganda when it paid a columnist to tout government policies and produced a video that seemed like a news story, congressional investigators said Friday.
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/09/30/build/nation/47-payola.inc

[liberalnurse]

6. Ahnuld sure did bite off

way more that he could chew when he went after NURSES! He sure has been choking on his fighting words. :woohoo: :rofl:

[rodeodance]

7. they keep trying till someone brave stops them!