Comments on: The War on Terra Continues… http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/05/27/the-war-on-terra-continues/ America's favorite blog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:01:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Chicory http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/05/27/the-war-on-terra-continues/#comment-1133 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/05/27/the-war-on-terra-continues/#comment-1133 Wolfie- No problem. That Syria thing is an easy one. How did you like our "smuggling gold out of the country" event? Boy, did the media love it! They'll be chewing on that one for at least a month. We'll get right on that tabuleh and turbans thing. Glad you like it. DoD who? Wolfie-

No problem. That Syria thing is an easy one. How did you like our “smuggling gold out of the country” event? Boy, did the media love it! They’ll be chewing on that one for at least a month.

We’ll get right on that tabuleh and turbans thing. Glad you like it.

DoD who?

]]> by: C. http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/05/27/the-war-on-terra-continues/#comment-1134 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/05/27/the-war-on-terra-continues/#comment-1134 That's the Department of Defense. Ya know, the department that responible for our entire military, nukes and all? That’s the Department of Defense. Ya know, the department that responible for our entire military, nukes and all?

]]> by: Chicory http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/05/27/the-war-on-terra-continues/#comment-1135 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/05/27/the-war-on-terra-continues/#comment-1135 I'm not a DoDling, I'm a DoDette ;-D! I’m not a DoDling, I’m a DoDette ;-D!

]]> by: amazilia2 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/05/27/the-war-on-terra-continues/#comment-1136 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/05/27/the-war-on-terra-continues/#comment-1136 Felber, you'd be funny if you weren't sooooo scary & so right! Keep up the goose bumps! Felber, you’d be funny if you weren’t sooooo scary & so right! Keep up the goose bumps!

]]> by: lp http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/05/27/the-war-on-terra-continues/#comment-1137 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/05/27/the-war-on-terra-continues/#comment-1137 Hey, here's a winner for the Cynic Award of 2003: Michael Deaver, former deputy chief of staff under Reagan, weighs in on the state of media and the Bush administration's manipulation of such <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/jan-june03/presimage_05-23.html">(Jim Lehrer NewsHour, May 23)</a> http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/jan-june03/presimage_05-23.html "MICHAEL DEAVER: <b>Eighty percent of the public gets all their information from television...</b> .. it better be interesting, entertaining, look good or they're going to switch off and watch something else.. it has to be believable or the people are going to say it's not real. ..And they understand that because people get their information from looking at that box, those people in the White House are filling up that space around the box so it amplifies whatever the president is saying. So they're seeing and hearing it. TERENCE SMITH: The public doesn't find this as cynical or manipulative? MICHAEL DEAVER:<b>I hate to tell you this, but television is an entertainment medium, not a news medium. "</b> Hey, here’s a winner for the Cynic Award of 2003:

Michael Deaver, former deputy chief of staff under Reagan, weighs in on the state of media and the Bush administration’s manipulation of such (Jim Lehrer NewsHour, May 23)

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/jan-june03/presimage_05-23.html

“MICHAEL DEAVER: Eighty percent of the public gets all their information from television…

.. it better be interesting, entertaining, look good or they’re going to switch off and watch something else.. it has to be believable or the people are going to say it’s not real.

..And they understand that because people get their information from looking at that box, those people in the White House are filling up that space around the box so it amplifies whatever the president is saying. So they’re seeing and hearing it.

TERENCE SMITH: The public doesn’t find this as cynical or manipulative?

MICHAEL DEAVER:I hate to tell you this, but television is an entertainment medium, not a news medium. “

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