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Obama orders vacation story scrubbed, "free" press complies.
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Herr Wilkus
Aggressive Salvage Services LLC
#41 - 2012-03-22 09:56:31 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
Telegram Sam wrote:
Remember when the Bush Admin wouldn't let the media show photos of flag-draped caskets coming from Iraq? And reporters in Iraq had to play by Pentagon rules and only show flattering stuff? No footage or photos of U.S. casualties or civilian casualties allowed. Right-wing or left-wing, power politics people want to control what's shown in the media. The only surprise is that we just let them do it.


This is why a good bulk of the US army tuned into the BBC world service.

Alpheias wrote:


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Straight


Actually, every US military base I've ever worked on, televisions in public spaces were tuned to Fox News. Probably because the soldiers prefer cable news that doesn't insult their intelligence.

I've frequently listened to and watched BBC news services, when there is absolutely nothing else to listen to on the radio. (IE, driving through foreign countries) The left wing bias is painfully obvious, though not quite as obvious and self-serving as NPR.
Kill Rockstar
Doomheim
#42 - 2012-03-23 20:10:48 UTC
Herr Wilkus wrote:
Actually, every US military base I've ever worked on, televisions in public spaces were tuned to Fox News. Probably because the soldiers prefer cable news that doesn't insult their intelligence.

I've frequently listened to and watched BBC news services, when there is absolutely nothing else to listen to on the radio. (IE, driving through foreign countries) The left wing bias is painfully obvious, though not quite as obvious and self-serving as NPR.




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Vogue
A Blessed Bean
Pandemic Horde
#43 - 2012-03-23 23:39:54 UTC  |  Edited by: Vogue
/professional nutjob checking in!

Media psywar 101: Harvest the heavy fruit of mind polution for entropic revolution. Watch the West Wing and The Sopranos. Notions of progress freaks out those in charge so they throw in media firebrands to ensure political balkanization. So you have Glen Beck on the right and Jon Stewart on the left.

As a nerd it really annoyed me the sheer amount of crap repetitive episodes that were in the Star Trek franchise. But the last episodes in the last season of Enterprise had some that were better than average.

I think actors and journalists often think 'well what i just did there was a load of crap, pays the rent\mortgage I suppose, on a rare occasion I do something half decent'.

Between the devil and the deep blue sea mass media has long legs indeed.
Roosterton
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#44 - 2012-03-24 01:39:03 UTC
White house clarifies on why the stories disappeared - they say it's always been a policy for security purposes whenever the Obama kids are away from their parents.
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