Re: The Meth and Porn uses reporting and how typical corporate media propaganda works.

[Uncle Joe]

http://www.wmbfnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=12539892

"IG report: Meth, porn use by drilling agency staff."

WASHINGTON (AP) - Staff members at an agency that oversees offshore drilling accepted tickets to sports events, lunches and other gifts from oil and gas companies and used government computers to view pornography, according to an Interior Department report alleging a culture of cronyism between regulators and the industry.

In at least one case, an inspector for the Minerals Management Service admitted using crystal methamphetamine and said he might have been under the influence of the drug the next day at work, according to the report by the acting inspector general of the Interior Department.

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Her biggest concern is the ease with which minerals agency employees move between industry and government, Kendall said. While no specifics were included in the report, "we discovered that the individuals involved in the fraternizing and gift exchange - both government and industry - have often known one another since childhood," Kendall said.

Their relationships took precedence over their jobs, Kendall said.

Take note of the disconnect between the fundamental, structural criticism of the report and that as presented by the corporate media, including the title.

It's easy and self-serving for the corporate media to demonize the individual and/or "We the People's" government while not shining a bright light on out-sized corporate power and abuse with it's iron grip on government.

This kind of subtle not showing the forest for the trees reporting is a large part of the reason as to why we have such an illogical, insane, dysfunctional, invasive and disenfranchising "War on Drugs" policy.

The primary problems in these cases wasn't drug use or porn, it was blatant, institutionalized and pervasive conflict of interest, something the AP and whatever other news agency decides to report this story should know, if they have any integrity.

[upi402]

1. our entire government is a Conflict of Interest! n/t

[Uncle Joe]

4. What if they had given preeminent reporting to corporate/government oversight conflict of interest

in this sector years ago, could we have avoided Gulf oil gusher?

[amborin]

7. +1 and K&R to the OP

[seabeyond]

2. stripper, girl on girl fight, bewbies, naked..... it is used all the time when it comes to women

and often pointed out and even more often dismissed.

one recent head line on a report about off shore drilling was..... fucking for virgins.

another was maddows bikini graph. really it was a graph on unemployment but we got to endure mens crude and vulgar comments about going down on women.

all of that is fine and dandy, but by gosh, talk about your porn and the outrage.

yes, this is the new way in news. nothing new here. glad you recognize it.

[Uncle Joe]

5. You're correct it's not new but this kind of reporting is just as destructive to reasonable

deliberation as it's always been and I believe a large part of the reason, as to why we're in our current environmental, economic and martial state of being.

[seabeyond]

6. i agree. it is dishonest. it lacks integrity. nt

[valerief]

3. I guess there was no room for these whores in the justice dept. during the Bush regime. nt