I don’t know who’s worse, the Bush administration for producing reams of propaganda and distributing it as news, or the media outlets that went along and broadcast the propaganda instead of exposing the administration for its incredible temerity.
This is a practice carried over from previous administrations, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t stop.
Update: Eric Umansky mines the key nugget out of the article.
The United States of Propaganda
I don’t know who’s worse, the Bush administration for producing reams of propaganda and distributing it as news, or the media outlets that went along and broadcast the propaganda instead of exposing the administration for its incredible temerity.
This is a practice carried over from previous administrations, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t stop.
Update: Eric Umansky mines the key nugget out of the article.
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