| Tuesday, December 27, 2005 |
| Blog is the new propaganda |
The administration's latest gambit in spreading the 'good news' about Iraq? Bloggers. Embedded with U.S. troops and writing stories, often with "tips and story suggestions" from military brass... Two bloggers are highlighted in the WaPo article: Bill Roggio of The Fourt Rail and Powerline or some of the other Bush-bot blogs you know what I mean, as opposed to the right-wing but more independent voices at places like RedState and Jawa, and even Malkin, who criticizes the Bushies when she's ready.) Either way, it's a judgment call each blogger can make for themselves. Personally, I wish more would err on the side of independence.
Meanwhile the military, for its part, is training future Iraq fighters how to deal with the press (lesson number one: lay off Rumsfeld...)
Tags: News, Iraq, href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/War">War, Embeds, Bloggers, Media |
posted by JReid @ 1:00 PM   |
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