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lostnfound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 11:12 PM
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Video people: something effective and useful to do re Gannon?
Edited on Sun Feb-13-05 11:12 PM by lostnfound
I wish somebody would combine some of the segments showing Gannon asking puffy-setup questions of Scott McLellan and Bush with some of the Mainstream Media reactions to bloggers breaking the scandal.

It's a microcosm of journalists-as-stage-props problem. To see Gannon ask the ridiculous questions, and to realize that he was surrounded by 'mainstream media' who never questioned his existence or thought to write about it, is pretty stunning. I.e., the segments played on Keith Olbermann(http://mywebpages.comcast.net/Nomad559/video.htm)

But to see the MSM reactions (like Howard Kurtz writing about the irresponsible bloggers digging into poor Gannon's personal life, and discussing it on TV in the same manner, and others pretending that it was a non-story) is also eye-opening. It's obviously not just ignorance/incompetence; in many cases, they are clearly working hard to help cover the story up.

I've passed the Olbermann interview around, but IMO it would be great to have it couched in a nice flash video explaining it, or edited to add MSM reactions, etc. For educating others that the media is just a stage prop for the GOP.
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