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Originally posted by fuzyfuzer
this sounds a little shody and somthing this big would be all over the news
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Nope, it's true. It was on NPR yesterday. To be fair, NPR said this is actually standard practice and was done by the Clinton administration as well.
Frankly, big business gives news outlets pre-packaged, easy to digest "news" as well. When your evening news features a cool new product, where do you think the footage came from? In many cases, the entire story was pre-packaged. In the same way, many news "interviews" are actually canned interview footage where the reporter is spliced in, they aren't actually talking to the celebrity, they are talking to a blank wall. Jon Stewart makes fun often on his show.
This really isn't a shocking story about the Bush Administration. It's a shocking story about how "news" organizations work.