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Article: THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION PROPAGANDA MACHINE
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- April 4, 2004
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A video put forth by the Bush administration, The New York Times
reported March 15, is being studied by federal investigators because
of its potential to be misleading.
The video, made for local TV news programs to air, portrays
President Bush receiving a standing ovation and paid actors posing as
journalists praising Bush's new Medicare law.
It prompted Washington Post staff writer Howard Kurtz, when asked
about it, to say, "It's become common practice for companies and
trade associations to put out these video news releases, which
sometimes are not identified as such . . . . But for the government
to get into the same business is troubling."