What do you all think??

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-27-2005
What do you all think??
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Mon, 11-17-2008 - 3:03pm

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/Obama_declares_war_on_conserva.html


This type of talk is what really scares me about the Extreme

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iVillage Member
Registered: 04-04-2003
Mon, 11-17-2008 - 3:13pm

I think the title of the article "Obama Declares War on Conservative Talk Radio" does not match the contents and all of it is pure speculation.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
Mon, 11-17-2008 - 3:19pm

What do I think?

Sopal

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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-25-2008
Mon, 11-17-2008 - 3:32pm

Given the number of prominent democrat congresscritters who have already signed on for a return of the "Fairness" doctrine, I think this is a legitimate concern.


The left would love nothing more than to silence conservative talk radio.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-05-2008
Mon, 11-17-2008 - 4:30pm

Oh, just blogger nonsense.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
Mon, 11-17-2008 - 4:51pm

<What exactly is "anti-localism," I wonder?

Sopal

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iVillage Member
Registered: 10-20-2008
Mon, 11-17-2008 - 5:38pm
And why exactly would you want to be 'anti' localism? Does that mean that you don't want to serve the local communities in which you broadcast? What does that say about the stations?
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-02-2008
Mon, 11-17-2008 - 9:50pm
I'm not sure what anti-localism means but this is my take on it.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-18-2000
Tue, 11-18-2008 - 8:53am

Don't believe everything you read/hear.


Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand



In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our times” by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse from United Nations human rights experts and calls were mounting for its closure.


The administration’s communications experts responded swiftly. Early one Friday morning, they put a group of retired military officers on one of the jets normally used by Vice President Dick Cheney and flew them to Cuba for a carefully orchestrated tour of Guantánamo.


To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as “military analysts” whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-Sept. 11 world.


Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found. More see link.......


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html?ref=3Dtodayspa=


Bush 'planted fake news stories on American TV'


Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. Some of the fake news segments talked up success in the war in Iraq, or promoted the companies' products.



Investigators from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are seeking information about stations across the country after a report produced by a campaign group detailed the extraordinary extent of the use of such items.


The report, by the non-profit group Centre for Media and Democracy, found that over a 10-month period at least 77 television stations were making use of the faux news broadcasts, known as Video News Releases (VNRs). Not one told viewers who had produced the items. More see link.......


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bush-planted-fake-news-stories-on-american-tv-480172.html

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iVillage Member
Registered: 10-09-2008
Tue, 11-18-2008 - 9:31am
I don't see anything wrong with the Pentagon putting out their point of view on Gitmo. Especially when the abuse accusations seem false, at least to me. I spoke with someone that was a guard down there, and according to him the abuse allegations are completely false.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-18-2000
Tue, 11-18-2008 - 9:37am
Those ex-military experts are presented as being independent not as the administration's propaganda machines.
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