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Scathing, Controlled Reporting

 

The Obama campaign's press strategy leading up to his election last November focused on "making" the media cover what the campaign wanted and on exercising absolute "control" over coverage, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn told an overseas crowd early this year. 

In a video of the event, Dunn is seen describing in detail the media strategy used by then-Sen. Barack Obama's highly disciplined presidential campaign. The video is footage from a Jan. 12 forum hosted by the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development in the Dominican Republic. 

"Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn't absolutely control," Dunn said, admitting that the strategy "did not always make us popular in the press." 

The video drew attention after Dunn kicked off a war of words with Fox News last Sunday, calling the network "opinion journalism masquerading as news." Read On

 
Anita Dunn in her Washington office, Friday, May 23, 2008. As the marathon Democratic primary campaign nears an end, Obama's staff is on the verge of vindicating its belief that the eloquent black freshman senator was a unique candidate who could win the Democratic nomination. The band of Obama loyalists who imagined that could happen have stunned even themselves with their success against Hillary Rodham Clinton. The campaign is rapidly adding new people, like experienced communications strategist Dunn, who is married to campaign general counsel Bob Bauer and recently joined Obama's inner circle.
   
   
     
     

JAW-DROPPING MTV The programming gurus at MTV are basing their profit-making strategy on the viewer demographic of 12 to 34 -- as if there’s no difference in maturity level between 12 and 34. MTV’s brand of sensationalistic "reality TV" was easily demonstrated on the night of Oct. 5, when they aired a primetime marathon (from 7 p.m. Eastern to 1 a.m.) of their hour-long documentary series called "True Life." Just the episode titles were jaw-dropping. Read On

 
     
     
     
     

SPOILED BRATS??? When inflation hits, every dollar in your bank account is worth less each day. Deflation is just the opposite: You put your feet up and watch your money grow in value. The latter is what is happening now to America's seniors. And politicians think they should not have to stand for it.

The other day, the federal government announced that for the first time since cost-of-living adjustments were begun in 1975, Social Security recipients will not get an annual raise in their monthly checks. This decision is not the result of a fit of fiscal austerity or a sadistic desire to punish old people. Read On

 
     
 
 

MOTHER OF JACKSON'S CHILDREN Florida woman who told a television interviewer that Michael Jackson's ex-wife was only interested in getting money from the singer's family and wasn't interested in gaining custody of her two children is being sued.

In a filing last week, Deborah Rowe's attorneys said the mother of Jackson's two oldest children should be awarded $490,000 in general and punitive damages.

Rowe sued Rebecca White in July for White's comments to the television show "Extra." White hasn't responded to the lawsuit and Rowe is seeking a default judgment against the Key West, Florida resident. Read On

 
 

THE HOAX Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden announced at a press conference on Sunday that Colorado authorities have ruled the "balloon boy's" flight a hoax.

"It has been determined that this is a hoax. We believe we have evidence at this point to indicate that this was a publicity stunt," Alderden told reporters.

Authorities believe the alleged plot was hatched in an attempt by the Heene family "to better market themselves for a reality show at some point in the future," Alderden said. "They were lying." Read On

 
 
 

DISHONEST REPORTING Recently, we have been hearing from others that females also have an addiction for pornography. When considering the source, we found....... After repeatedly asking for scientific research as evidence, we have either received none, received some interesting numbers related to different subjects, was told the evidence was coming, or just received plain nonsense. You say how can this be, if notable organizations operated by notable males who even wrote books about females suggesting an addiction to pornography?

Our nonprofit has battled pornography for over twelve years by researching it, interviewing addicted males, researching rapes of woman and children, interviewing females, and interviewing hundreds of prostitutes, when we have not found one female personally interested in pornography, let alone, addicted to it. Read On

 
 
 
 

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