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6.) Controlled Mass Media

Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.

Smoking Gun Memo? Iraq Bombshell Goes Mostly Unreported in US Media

Report shows U.S. government has been engaged in illegal propaganda aimed at its own citizens and the story gets only 41 mentions in the media

FOX NEWS ADMITS BIAS: Scott Norvell is London bureau chief for Fox News, and on May 20 he let the mask slip in, of all places, the Wall Street Journal. So far, the damage has been contained, because Norvell's comments -- in an op-ed he wrote decrying left-wing bias at the BBC -- appeared only in the Journal's European edition.

Free Press details recent governmental propaganda efforts, from faux-correspondent Jeff Gannon to paid-off pundit Armstrong Williams, and from the demise of FOIA to video news releases passed off as news. also... See a Whitehouse fake news release here (opens realplayer)

Conservative columnist discloses CIA operative's name, liberal reporters face jail time

White House Convenes Right-Wing Blogger Propaganda Conference Call

Washington Post equals White House propaganda on Iraq: The Washington Post doesn't label the incredible amount of violence in Iraq a "civil war" because government officials won't.

President Bush met with eight leading conservative columnists on Wednesday afternoon, and a transcript has just been released.

White House organizes conservative talk radio for propaganda purposes. This time it's on the White House lawn. FOX contributor, Juan Williams, serves as the token "liberal".

Pentagon investigates itself and finds that it acted legally when it hired a contractor to pay Iraqi news organizations to run pro-American stories.

Miami Herald Fires Journalists For Taking Government Pay

Newsweek sheltering our precious eyes from bad news on their cover (see left margin)

Discover the Secret Right-Wing Network Behind ABC's 9/11 Deception

Disney blocks release of controversial 9/11 film to avoid "partisan politics." Not the ABC one--this story is from 2004, and the film was "Fahrenheit 9/11."

Latest propaganda from Fox "News": "If the Democrats win in November, America will be all the more vulnerable and susceptible to terrorism."

U.S. to Spend $20 Million to Generate Positive Press on Iraq

FCC ordered report on local channel ownership destroyed when it conflicts with their desire to get channels into big business hands.

NY Times Eavesdropping Story Wasn’t The Only One Squashed For Bush’s ’04 Campaign

Despite polls showing otherwise, media continue to assert U.K. terror arrests help Bush's approval ratings

On CNN Headline News show, Beck repeated comparison of Dean and Ahmadinejad, again mocked Muslim names

NYT Delayed Publication Of NSA Spying Story Before 2004 Election, didn't want to sway the election, didn't realize that was their job

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee issued a sweeping indictment Friday of the Bush White House's casual approach to law-breaking in a report called, "The Constitution in Crisis." The media ignored it.

Journalism Educators Blast Bush Admin's “Anti-Press Policies”.

It's a lot worse over here [in Iraq] than is reported. The administration does a great job of managing the news.

Embedded TV news producer: "I was a mouthpiece for the American military"

Just when you thought male prostitute and GOP press corps plant "Jeff Gannon" was in relative obscurity, he's still giving the "Liberal Media Conspiracy" hard time with falsehoods, distortions and "softball" questions

Senate Committee Launches Taxpayer-Funded Misinformation Campaign About Gore Movie

Rush Limbaugh Visits Supreme Court, White House, Meets with President Bush, Karl Rove

Former Bush Spokesman Urges Newspapers to Run Pro-War Stories

Pentagon documents unearthed by the Washington Post this April revealed that the elevation of Zarqawi's profile was a deliberate, multimillion-dollar propaganda campaign aimed at the American people

Tony Snow On Whether The WH Is Obsessed With The Press: “It's More A Love Affair Than An Obsession”.

Guy that made up story about Iranian Jews getting yellow badges will be punished severely by going to the White House and advising George Bush on Iran.

Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting propaganda produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news.

Now that Tony Snow has started his job as White House Press Secretary, it seemed rather inappropriate for him to be a guest today on Sean Hannity's radio show.

Government Tracking ABC News' Phone Calls To Catch Whistleblowers.

FBI Acknowledges: Journalists Phone Records are Fair Game

CIA Warning Retired Employees Not To Talk With Reporters - Or They Will Lose Their Pensions.

NBC, CBS, Fox cropped Rumsfeld questioner's challenges, Rumsfeld's "stammer[ing]" replies see the unedited exchange here (.wmv format)

WH Orders All Cabinet Members To Put Positive War On Terror And Iraq Message Into All Their Speeches

Manufacturing Consent: How government and big media businesses cooperate to produce an effective propaganda machine in order to manipulate the opinions of the United States populous. Windows Media

Top Spy’s Story on Prewar Intel was ready to air on CBS’ “60 Minutes” before the 2004 election, but was held back

Fox"News" host Tony Snow chosen new White House Press Secretary.

TV News has more Corporate propaganda then you already thought it did

Republican and conservative media dominance continues unabated.

Two weeks previous, President Bush personally tried to talk Arthur Sulzberger and executive editor Bill Keller out of running the illegal domestic wiretapping story.

Don't like what your official spokesman said? Go ahead and change the transcript. It's what the White House does

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting's former chief e-mailed White House strategist Karl Rove, "bragging" about a push for conservative programming on U.S. public television

The former chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting repeatedly violated the organization's contracting rules and code of ethics in his efforts to promote conservatives in the system

Cheney staffer-turned-reporter now covering Libby indictment for NBC News

Chain of TV and radio station donates $300,000 worth of airtime to GOP candidates for free last-minute political ads

US seizes webservers from independent media sites

Al Qaida may pose a threat to our security, but the alliance of state and media poses a clear and present danger to our freedom.

Only PBS Frontline and Democracy Now! have dared to interview U.S. interrogator Tony Lagouranis, who reports widespread torture and abuse throughout Iraq

Fox News, MSNBC devoted scant coverage to Rep. Cunningham's guilty pleas, resignation

Bush's war on information: US editors forbidden to publish certain foreign writers

Bush administration violated federal law by producing and distributing television news segments about the effects of drug use among young people. The GAO said the videos "constitute covert propaganda" because the government was not identified as the source of the materials

A FAKE END TO FAKE NEWS: An act designed to end government propaganda is altered to the PR industry's approval.

Amazing that newspapers from California, Colorado, Indiana and North Carolina could be channeling, simultaneously and in complete harmony, the Bush administration line for cutting wages for workers rebuilding the Gulf coast.

The White House Looks To Improve Iraq News: Unhappy with Iraq setbacks, White House sends envoy to lean on reporters, errr umm, I mean "improve media relations"

Local Public Access TV Under Attack From Trio of Congressional Bills

Longtime Republican fundraiser Cheryl Halpern was elected the new chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting earlier this week. She has accused National Public Radio of being biased against Israel.

Bush & Media: Normalizing the Abnormal

U.S. immigration officials refused Tuesday to allow Robert Fisk, longtime Middle East correspondent for the London newspaper, The Independent, to board a plane from Toronto to Denver. 9-23

Fox News Peddles a War With Iran: "Remember how much we fussed over this guy? [Video of Saddam Hussein shown while the banner at the bottom of the screen read: Forget Saddam?] Now what if I told you we might be facing a bigger threat from this guy? [Video of Iran's President-elect, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] 6-29

Two weeks ago the UK Independent ran an article which confirmed that the US had “lied to Britain over the use of napalm in Iraq.” Since then, not one American newspaper or TV station has picked up the story even though the Pentagon has verified the claims. This is the extent to which the American “free press” is yoked to the center of power in Washington. 6-29

"If Watergate Happened Now" served as a good reminder that FoxNews is run by Nixon's media strategist

FRONT-RUNNER FOR PUBLIC BROADCAST AGENCY JOB IS FORMER GOP CHAIR

Mouthing the GOP's Words: Bush and his allies have established the precedent that a political party can unilaterally force the news media to change its terminology

Fox News Admits To Being Aligned w/Rush Limbaugh, and to Being on a "Conservative Team" Working to Put a Radical Conservative on the Supreme Court

Fibbing It Up at Fox

FOX News doctors AP reports to mimic White House terminology

If it's allowed to stand, an FCC ruling will feed media merger mania

Articles published by American outlets suppressed in their own country

Reporters in chains: Under Homeland Security orders, journalists from England, Sweden, Holland and other friendly countries are being detained at U.S. airports, strip-searched and deported.

There was a study done a year ago in which one-third of the journalists who responded said they were asked to kill stories that were offensive to the clientele of their corporate bosses.

Governor Mitt Romney's administration has awarded a $10,000 contract to a Boston Herald op-ed columnist to promote the governor's (anti)environmental policies.

WHITE HOUSE TO AGENCIES: IGNORE GAO'S RULING ON 'ILLEGAL' TV NEWS RELEASES

Conservative columnist discloses CIA operative's name, liberal reporters face jail time

A television pundit gets secret payments to promote a new United States government education policy. Columnists are paid to provide support for a White House marriage stance. Actresses play news reporters to promote drug laws. A system of ranking reporters who criticize official policy. These, and possibly many other public relations stunts, are some examples of publicity contracts paid for by the U.S. government, which has spent more than a quarter billion dollars on public relations in the past four years.

In bed with the republicans and banning antiwar songs: Clear channel

The White House recently called the president of NBC News, to discourage that network from broadcasting interviews with author of book about the Bush family

Anti-Kerry film to air in prime-time Nation's largest TV chain orders all 62 stations to show movie without commercials right before election

War Pictures Cause Yellowtimes.Org To Be Shut Down, Again

Journalists under siege of subpoenas

Rush Limbaugh explains why he does not invite liberal guests to debate him on his show: claims to be the only one who will present the liberal point of view honestly.

Cato Institute columnist resigns after admitting he took payments from lobbyist

New York Times admits it held domestic spying story for a full year at Whitehouse's request

President Bush has been summoning newspaper editors lately in an effort to prevent publication of stories he considers damaging to national security.

The U.S. Army is giving "exclusive content" to pro-war bloggers through a propaganda company funded by American tax dollars.

How the US Press Squelches Bush Impeachment Drive: There are now eight members of Congress who have put their names to a bill calling for a special committee of the House to investigate impeachable crimes by the Bush administration.

Rep. Tom DeLay Threatens Media Outlets Running Ads Linking Him to Corruption

Blast from the Past: Jeff Gannon retrospective in Video

The Florida Republican Party on Saturday called security to eject reporters listening to Gov. Jeb Bush's speech in Tallahassee

AP runs hit piece on Harry Reid and leaves out crucial information.

Your Community Cable Channels (Public, Educational, Governmental) are under threat by pending legislation in the House and Senate. Take Action!

Bush Spends over $1.6 Billion on Adverts & Public Relations Contracts Since 2003...GAO Finds

The Pentagon’s War on the Internet

NSA HIRES NEWS AGENCIES

Political Appointees At NASA Altered News Releases That Could Have Conflicted With Bush Admin. Policies.

Former Top CIA Official Tells The Press How To Do Their job

MSNBC's "Hardball" should be renamed "Softball" for Republican guests and pundits

Chris Matthews "has received tens of thousands of dollars in exchange for delivering speeches to corporate interest groups," in apparent violation of an NBC policy.

Billboard firm refuses to post candidate's ad

Right Blogosphere Scammed by Bogus Document Dump

Bush Admin's Fuzzy Science... Editing Climate Reports, Censoring Scientists

Bush Holding Off-The-Record Meetings With Reporters To Improve His Image

Admin. Spends $1.62B On PR, Ads, “Bush Admin.'s Propaganda Effort Is Unprecedented”

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