| Are Flagan on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 14:08:53 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> Bush to Unnamed Officials: Shut Up or Else |
Re: 10/22/03 11:14, "Soenke Zehle" <[email protected]>: > It's the media, stupid. I regularly turn to Comedy Central's Daily Show with John Stewart for the news and tune into CSPAN for moments of high comedy. Press briefings by Scotty are pretty hilarious if you enjoy schizo doubletalk and old newspeak. And Rumsfeld and Myers, the short and the tall, are a veritable Laurel and Hardy team. Don and Dick defending God's general Boykin? Priceless! (It's up there with the classic Dershowitz/Finkelstein episode on Democracy Now!) Having already quite badly pissed off the CIA on several counts (not a super brilliant idea, Dubya, to anger the guys who invented dirty tricks), Bush recently extolled that he would go over the heads of the national media and talk *straight* to the smaller press outfits, to get his message out. Scotty was recently asked about this new policy, as the anointed and puppy-dog loyal White House press corps wanted, really, to know _exactly_ where they had gone so terribly wrong in reporting. Where, how, details please, is the President dissatisfied with our coverage? The intonation was understandably one of heavy sarcasm (with undertones of the tacit agreement that says, we'll only report your lies if you never tell the truth). It may be the media, stupid, but never ever, apparently, call it the stupid media. It may just wise up. -af # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]