Comments on: Ron Paul and New Hampshire Debate: What Is Known http://www.bloggernews.net/112752 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:38:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Richard Wicks http://www.bloggernews.net/112752#comment-174683 Richard Wicks Tue, 01 Jan 2008 05:50:48 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/112752#comment-174683 "AP is supposed to be an reliably accurate news source" I have a question for you: Who owns AP? You don't know? Isn't it strange that about the only thing you know about one of the largest most influential news organizations in the US is that they are Associated Press - AP. Then there is Reuters. Who are they and who owns them? Those two mysterious agencies write just about all the news you see in this country. Trying to get Americans to realize what these organizations actually do is very difficult because nobody in the US can believe for a second that they are just propaganda outlets. I mean, this is the United States, we couldn't POSSIBLY have propaganda. Well, unless you know who Edward Bernays is, and what Operation Pbsuccess was, and how well placed propaganda made by Bernays was essential in that CIA operation - back in 1954. But whenever you see a hit piece of something with a ton of inaccurate information, like here: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/31/arts/TV-Debate-Limits.php Notice nobody's name is attached to the article. Paul is polling higher than Thompson is, and Thompson was invited, yet there is nobody to contact to correct that mistake - and meanwhile readers that don't know, assume that Paul really is just a fringe candidate and it's perfectly reasonable to leave him out of the race since "he can't win anyhow". The real battle here is getting Americans to realize they don't really have any access to news through television or newspapers any more. The only place you can get it from is here, on the Internet. I doubt the people who spent all that money to control newspapers and television are happy about that and wish it to continue.. “AP is supposed to be an reliably accurate news source”

I have a question for you:

Who owns AP?

You don’t know? Isn’t it strange that about the only thing you know about one of the largest most influential news organizations in the US is that they are Associated Press - AP.

Then there is Reuters.

Who are they and who owns them?

Those two mysterious agencies write just about all the news you see in this country.

Trying to get Americans to realize what these organizations actually do is very difficult because nobody in the US can believe for a second that they are just propaganda outlets. I mean, this is the United States, we couldn’t POSSIBLY have propaganda. Well, unless you know who Edward Bernays is, and what Operation Pbsuccess was, and how well placed propaganda made by Bernays was essential in that CIA operation - back in 1954.

But whenever you see a hit piece of something with a ton of inaccurate information, like here:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/31/arts/TV-Debate-Limits.php

Notice nobody’s name is attached to the article. Paul is polling higher than Thompson is, and Thompson was invited, yet there is nobody to contact to correct that mistake - and meanwhile readers that don’t know, assume that Paul really is just a fringe candidate and it’s perfectly reasonable to leave him out of the race since “he can’t win anyhow”.

The real battle here is getting Americans to realize they don’t really have any access to news through television or newspapers any more. The only place you can get it from is here, on the Internet. I doubt the people who spent all that money to control newspapers and television are happy about that and wish it to continue..

]]> By: xtrabiggg http://www.bloggernews.net/112752#comment-173024 xtrabiggg Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:47:05 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/112752#comment-173024 The story originally broke on the Associated Press wire. It was then picked up by most major media outlets and spread from there. Why is nobody asking the AP writers what their sources were, and why they went with the story if it was not independently confirmed. AP is supposed to be an reliably accurate news source, so many others (such as William Westmiller on Nolan Chart) went with it, assuming accuracy. Since FOX News (not surprisingly) refused confirmation, denial or even comment on the story, what's a reporter supposed to do? Typically, many pundits, columnists and even supposedly 'respectable' media outlets are spinning this story in a way to smear Ron Paul and his supporters. Maybe that was the purpose of the AP report in the first place... You know, plant a seed, watch it grow... CHOP DOWN THE WEED! Yellow journalism at it's smarmiest. xtrabiggg ++++++++++++++++++++ The story originally broke on the Associated Press wire. It was then picked up by most major media outlets and spread from there. Why is nobody asking the AP writers what their sources were, and why they went with the story if it was not independently confirmed. AP is supposed to be an reliably accurate news source, so many others (such as William Westmiller on Nolan Chart) went with it, assuming accuracy. Since FOX News (not surprisingly) refused confirmation, denial or even comment on the story, what’s a reporter supposed to do?

Typically, many pundits, columnists and even supposedly ‘respectable’ media outlets are spinning this story in a way to smear Ron Paul and his supporters. Maybe that was the purpose of the AP report in the first place… You know, plant a seed, watch it grow… CHOP DOWN THE WEED! Yellow journalism at it’s smarmiest.

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