Was Jeff Gannon a "PsyOps" by the Bush Admin?

[PresidentErnestTBass]

From The Knight Shift blog http://theknightshift.blogspot.com/2005/02/was-jeff-gannon-psyops-by-bush-admin.html

exerpt:

So I gotta wonder: is a PsyOps operation being run on us by members of this administration in the White House? Was Jeff Gannon a "reporter" specially selected and placed so that a "credible news agency" would ask questions - intended to convey certain biases and beliefs that would favor the Bush administration - which would then be picked up and disseminated to a much vaster audience by the big dogs of the nation's press?

Rest of post is found here

[GalleryGod]

1. Another Paid OPS!

And now KKKarl is Chief of Staff!:argh:
Seig Heil, Media!

[Hissyspit]

2. Sure is looking that way, isn't it? n/t

[Snotcicles]

3. Dah n/t

[H2O Man]

4. Sure could be.

There is reason to consider this very likely.

[PresidentErnestTBass]

6. The procedure of control

permission given to exerpt by author:

It's really very simple: an agent of the government contacts a minor media outlet somewhere. Say, a small-town newspaper or low-watt television station... or a low-traffic website. He tells the editor or producer that he's got a "hot tip" for a story. Usually this means that the potential story is intended to sow distrust and suspicion against a particular person or group (my source said that this was regular practice against anti-war activists and others during Vietnam) or in favor of a certain side in a policy debate... such as whatever's going on with Social Security. The small media outlet publishes or broadcasts a story. If it's been "cultivated" well enough then it can be decided that it needs more attention. A larger media outlet receives a phone call or e-mail telling them to "hey check out this issue of the Springfield Shopper there's this story you should check out". So the bigger newspaper or TV station takes a look, figures it's a legitimate story and THEY run with it, referring back to the initial source that first aired or published the news item. Ya see, that "establishes credibility that this is a real story", my source told me.

If played correctly, what started out as practically a filler story in the bi-weekly newspaper down in Lizard Lick, Georgia will go up the food chain, right into ears - and out the mouths - of Fox News and CNN. And it will have the effect of swaying public opinion either for something (or someone) or against.

This is how the government has long had tremendous control over the American people's perceptions of issues and ideology, the source told me: "It's psychological operations against the public."

[fishwax]

5. I thought that was pretty self-evident

at least, it's been my assumption all along.