How the White House press corps works

[rocketman]

This is an interesting piece that lets you know quite how deep-seated is the info doublespeak at the White House.
It's Salon, so you need to watch an ad, but it's well-worth the read, if a little depressing and disturbing.

I invaded the White house press corps (http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/08/27/briefing/index.html)

[Badger Kitten]

I wish real life was more like The West Wing. :(

[rocketman]

I wish real life was more like The West Wing. :(
But this is real life. This is how the US president controls the information available to the leading press companies in the world.
Welcome to the new Orewellian world, complete with an unending war in the East, the evolution of thought crime, and the ministry of thought.

[Badger Kitten]

1984 was as apt in the 1950's as it is now, and rulers have always controlled the flow of information.


There are many ways in which 2005 is not at all like 1984 and many ways in which it is. And 6th formers write essays on this on a regular basis. Ho hum.

[rocketman]

There are many ways in which 2005 is not at all like 1984 and many ways in which it is.

Shall we list them?

[energy]

With the rise of the Internet and alternative news media, the West is now much less like Big Brother than any other time in history, yet people continue to think the opposite.

[rocketman]

With the rise of the Internet and alternative news media, the West is now much less like Big Brother than any other time in history, yet people continue to think the opposite.

Ah. How refreshing. Everything is alright, then.
Have you read that Salon piece?

[bugsy7]

This is an interesting piece that lets you know quite how deep-seated is the info doublespeak at the White House.
It's Salon, so you need to watch an ad, but it's well-worth the read, if a little depressing and disturbing.

I invaded the White house press corps (http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/08/27/briefing/index.html)

An extremely ineresting, insightful and, as you say, disturbing read. But well worth it. Thanks for going to the trouble of posting it.

MsG

[Streathamite]

bit of a non-story, I'd have thought. USG tries desperately to manipulate media coverage of it. Ho hum. reminds me of working in Millbank for labour in the mid-late '90s

[Badger Kitten]

Shall we list them?

Feel free.

[rocketman]

There's even a movie


Orwell rolls in his grave (http://www.orwellrollsinhisgrave.com/reviews.htm)