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	Media Misinformation Awards

maquser

12-15-2008 12:00 PM

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democracy, freedom, misinformation, lies, misleading

maquser says:

Learn about the winning flimflammers of '08 and hope they all get jail time too

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f0385d51-f157-4a05-bfb4-aa8eed631906/6BAB4613-9D92-4C65-A4B2-9B19FED78309/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.prwatch.org/falsies2008" href="http://www.prwatch.org/falsies2008" style="font-size: 11px;">www.prwatch.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.prwatch.org/falsies2008">Center for Media and Democracy's (CMD's) fifth annual Falsies Awards.  The Falsies are our attempt to shine an unflattering light on those responsible for polluting the information environment over the past year.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.prwatch.org/falsies2008">You could call it General (ret.) Misinformation -- the Pentagon's successful effort to turn retired military officers into the Bush Administration's "message force multipliers," mostly on broadcast and cable television.  "You could see that they were messaging," one former Defense Department official explained to <I><A target="_blank" title="reference on New York Times" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html">New York Times</A></I> journalist David Barstow, who first reported on the covert program.  "You could see they were taking verbatim what the [Defense] secretary was saying ... and they were saying it over and over."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.prwatch.org/falsies2008">putting your words into someone else's mouth is known as the <A  title="reference on third party technique" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=third_party_technique">third party technique</A>.  When it's secretly carried out with taxpayer funds to influence domestic public opinion, it's <A  title="reference on illegal propaganda" href="http://www.prwatch.org/node/7261">illegal propaganda</A>.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6BAB4613-9D92-4C65-A4B2-9B19FED78309/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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