U.S. paid for "news reports" in Iraqi Press but WHAT ABOUT HERE?!?!

[Angry Girl]

Dammit! What about the paid for news we are subjected to right HERE, at home, in the so-called land of the free *cough*? The press is now starting to report about the Iraqi press whores but won't look further at their own corruption:

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

[murray hill farm]

My very first thought...

when this was first reported...thank you for your post. recommended.

[babylonsister]

1. Can you say Judy Miller and Armstrong Williams? Who

knows how many more press whores are out there?

[GuvWurld]

2. Good work, Angry Girl. Kick/Recommend. (eom)

[Autonomy]

3. recommended and bookmarked

thanks.

[hwmnbn]

4. Yep, the MSM hasn't been too eager....

to cover it's own complicity with the propaganda machine.

[welshTerrier2]

5. no, here they are simply exchanged for favors ... nt

[Al-CIAda]

6. .

[Tom Joad]

7. No, Bush supports democracy!

He wouldn't pay people to say nice things.

Now excuse me, I have to link to this post to get my check... rent's due you know.

[wixomblues]

8. The best free press our tax dollars can provide!

[ucmike]

9. check out randi rhodes' website for an article on mr. renden

and his "perception management". renden owns a company that planted false stories about the iraq war using foreign press outlets. once in the foreign press they filtered into the us press. "pushing the propaganda", as it were.

judith miller is one of renden story passers, according to the article on randi's site.

oh yeah, renden has gotten hundreds of millions from the us govt since the days of bush 1.

added: renden is responsible for distributing u.s. and other flags for the "spontaneous" celebrations when we drove iraq out of kuwait, a trick i am quite sure he dusted off for the invasion of baghdad.

[RedEarth]

10. excellent source....