OpEdNews - Diary: Memo to the media: You don't have to use "White House" terminology

[[IMAG15]] The job of any White House is to promote its agenda, so they use clever phrases whenever possible. It doesn't mean that the media has to or should use them. Isn't that like Journalism, 101?

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DIANE'S NEWS CLIPS begins here :)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> http://www.crooksandliars.com MEMO To THE MEDIA: YOU DON'T HAVE TO USE "White House" Terminology By: John Amato The job of any White House is to promote its agenda so they use clever phrases whenever possible. It doesn't mean that the media has to or should use them. Isn't that like Journalism, 101? I've heard right wingers complaining when the Media labels it an "escalation," which it is. My friend Mark asks the question: "When has the term "surge" ever been used to describe a military action before?" Read here: http://snipurl.com/175nm _________________________________ http://thinkprogress.org McCONNELL CLAIMS CONGRESS CAN'T RESTRICT FUNDS FOR IRAQ, Voted To Restrict Clinton In Somalia .................snip................... It's one thing for McConnell to support Bush's escalation plan. It's another to mislead about what Congress can do to stop it. http://snipurl.com/175tj _________________________________ Excerpted from: http://www.truthout.org Frida Berrigan | Raptors, Robots, and Rods From God http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011007F.shtml We are not winning the war on terrorism (and would not be even if we knew what victory looked like) or the war in Iraq. Our track record in Afghanistan, as well as in the allied "war" on drugs, is hardly better. Yet the Pentagon is hard at work, spending your money, planning and preparing for future conflicts of every imaginable sort. --- New US Strikes Hit Sites in Somalia: Government Source http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011007C.shtml US forces hit four locations in new air strikes in Somalia on Wednesday as criticism mounted over Washington's military intervention. --- Robert Scheer | Brooding Prince's Soliloquy http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011007E.shtml Robert Scheer writes: "To surge or not to surge, that is the question. As our prince proposes, once again, to take arms against a sea of troubles, he responds not to the disaster that he has visited upon Iraq, but rather embraces a desperate strategy for salvaging what remains of his reign." --- John Cory | Three Thousand Plus One http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011007J.shtml John Cory writes: "President Bush will unleash the latest formula of folly in Iraq: the 'surge' doctrine, embroidered with a theme of 'sacrifice.' Voices of the dead scream in silent sorrow, and the world watches aghast at the fiery failure. And yet, the man-child king demands one more chance. The coming speech matters little and cannot hide the bloody lies and deception that have taken a toll on America." --- Grim Picture of Iraq From US Government Watchdog http://snipurl.com/172bm --- Soldiers Doubt Troop Increase Will Benefit Iraqi Army http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011007R.shtml [snip] ... the American soldiers assigned to train Iraqi troops to believe that it will be years before Iraq's army can stand on its own. --- With Iraq Speech, Bush to Pull Away From His Generals http://snipurl.com/175b1 --- Bush to Face Street Protests Over Iraq Escalation Plan http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011007N.shtml [snip] ... anti-war groups say they will hold rallies and sit-ins in dozens of cities across the nation to press the US Congress to thwart any troop escalation. --- Bill Scheurer | Iraq: The Way Back http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011007M.shtml "We are stuck in hell in Iraq, and everyone knows it. Even those whose only response is to go in deeper - with 'a new approach' - in this 'grave and deteriorating' situation," writes Bill Scheurer. "Yet, there is a way out of hell. A way back from the collective Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that led us astray after September 11, to return to our truer and better selves." --- Dean Baker | Hooked on Drug Money http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011007A.shtml Dean Baker writes: "It's payback time, as the lobbyists say in Washington. One of the key planks in the Democrats' election platform was changing the Medicare drug benefit by allowing Medicare to negotiate lower prices with the pharmaceutical industry. While this may not have been as important to their victory as the war, voters were outraged by the Medicare drug bill approved by the Republican Congress. The benefit was designed to enrich the pharmaceutical and insurance industries at the expense of taxpayers and beneficiaries." --- Ex-Interior Deputy a Target in Abramoff Probe http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011007T.shtml Federal prosecutors have notified a former deputy secretary of the interior, J. Steven Griles, that he is a target in the public corruption investigation of Jack Abramoff's lobbying activities. --- The Green Gripe With Obama: Liquefied Coal Is Still ... Coal. http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011007EA.shtml Who, but who, would soil the environmental reputation of Barack Obama? The Democratic senator from Illinois gets stellar marks from greens. So why then, environmentalists ask, is Obama backing a law supporting the expanded use of coal, whose emissions are cooking the globe? --- EU Says Climate Change Will Transform the Face of the Continent http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011007ED.shtml Europe, the richest and most fertile continent and the model for the modern world, will be devastated by climate change, the European Union predicts. --- Pelosi: "We Will Not Be Swiftboated on These Issues" http://snipurl.com/16hy7 _________________________________ .ron corvuswire@verizon.net Eli Lilly Knowlingly Committing Murder, Downloadable Company Documents Show Tuesday, January 09, 2007 MindFreedom News - 29 December 2006 | http://www.mindfreedom.org Eli Lilly "Panics" About "ZyprexaKills Campaign" Eli Lilly Gets Second Court Order Targeting MindFreedom Members To Try to Cover- Up Evidence Secret Eli Lilly Documents on Psychiatric Drug Zyprexa Are Said to be Downloadable Once More Via a Grassroots Internet Campaign Using "Tor." MFI Board Member Says Eli Lilly Is "Panicking" Because They Have "Committed Homicide." Secret Eli Lilly documents about fraudulent marketing of the psychiatric drug Zyprexa are reportedly available once more for free download. Eli Lilly has obtained a second court order, this one targeting a number of MindFreedom members. In an e-mail exchange today Eli Lilly threatened a MindFreedom member, Eric Whalen, with legal action to try to suppress the documents. Eric has complied. See the new court gag order and threatening e-mails from Eli Lilly via MFI's Update 12 here: http://www.mindfreedom.org/know/psych-drug-corp/eli-lilly-secrets/ ..................snip.......................... Continued >> http://alexconstantine.blogspot.com/2007/01/eli-lilly-knowlingly-committing-murder.html _________________________________ Excerpted from: http://www.madcowprod.com CIBER INC. CHAIRMAN DUMPED STOCK BEFORE ELECTION TESTING LAB BARRED Read here: http://www.madcowprod.com/01112007.html _________________________________ http://www.buzzmachine.com by Jeff Jarvis NEWSPAPERS' INDUSTRIAL SUICIDE Three of the (still) big newspaper companies, Gannett, Tribune, McClatchy, announced a joint effort to sell national ads onto their web sites. Now you might think I'd nod approvingly at that. But I'm not. I'm shaking my head in sad disbelief. For this only reminds me of the newspaper industry's horribly failed effort to sell ads across the sites of a dozen big companies, the New Century Network, which failed because the companies simply could not work together. And the Journal story only points out that there are still fragmented, competitive efforts going on in the industry. The bottom line is that they are making it hard for national advertisers to buy their sites - thus, easier to buy Yahoo, Google, MSN, MySpace, et al. You see, newspapers all think they're special. But they're not. Read more: http://snipurl.com/175sw _________________________________ Excerpted from: http://mediamatters.org Bash persists with CNN's use of "surge" Persisting in calling what President Bush is expected to propose in a January 10 prime-time speech a "surge," despite no indication that Bush's expected proposal will be for a short-term increase, CNN congressional correspondent Dana Bash reported on the January 8 edition of CNN's The Situation Room that Democrats "already said that they oppose a surge in U.S. troops to go to Iraq." Moments later, Bash reported that Democrats were considering "withholding funding for what they call an escalation of the war," suggesting that only the term "escalation" has political overtones, while "surge" does not. Read more >> VIDEO: http://mediamatters.org/items/200701090008?src=other --- NY Times' Stolberg uncritically quoted GOP strategist's claim that public does not support withdrawal In a January 9 article, New York Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg uncritically quoted an assertion by an anonymous Republican strategist that "the public is not for immediate withdrawal or even a quick withdrawal, but they're not for the status quo." The Times further quoted the strategist as saying, "I think they [the president's advisers] feel as if the public is more likely to support the president's position," an apparent reference to Bush's call for an increase in troops in Iraq. In fact, available polling shows that a majority of Americans support some type of troop withdrawal while only a small minority support an increase in troops, facts that the Times did not include in its article: Read more >> http://mediamatters.org/items/200701090014?src=other --- Good Morning America turns blind eye to Beck's smears, hires him as regular commentator Read more >> VIDEO: http://snipurl.com/172ey --- ABC shut down blogger who criticized violent rhetoric on one of its radio stations The mainstream media have yet to report on the story of a blogger whose website was shut down after he began spotlighting inflammatory rhetoric common to several talk radio hosts on KSFO, an ABC Radio-owned station in San Francisco. Read more >> http://mediamatters.org/items/200701090004?src=other --- NY Post editorial misrepresented Bush signing statement on opening of mail Read more >> http://mediamatters.org/items/200701100001?src=other --- Lowry: Minimum wage hike will "give a small boost" to "teenagers working summers" Read more >> http://mediamatters.org/items/200701090006?src=other --- Time's Allen described Fielding as olive branch despite partisan history, reports of Bush girding for battle Time's Mike Allen wrote that President Bush's intention to appoint Fred Fielding to replace Harriet Miers as White House counsel is "a signal that [Bush] could be open to working more closely with congressional Democrats rather than stonewalling." But Allen quoted no Democrats offering their reaction to a Fielding appointment and made no mention of criticism by prominent Senate Democrats over Fielding's involvement in the evaluation of a Bush appeals court nominee. 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