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[Michael Winslow Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>]

On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 04:04  PM, Shea Tisdale wrote:

> But then again maybe I should question the veracity of this story.  I
> mean, a "huge network of right-wing lawyers" I can totally buy into.
> But a "huge network of right-wing lawyers and press outlets" is a bit 
> of
> a stretch...  I mean I didn't know there was a right wing press except
> for Fox News.

Over the years billionaire Richard Scaife has given over 200 million to 
fund more than a hundred "conservative" media organizations ranging 
anywhere from college newspapers the American Spectator. The way these 
groups work together was exposed by reporter David Brock who worked for 
the Heritage Foundation and the American Spectator, and then had a 
change of heart. In his book Blinded by the Right Brock describes how 
he made up stories such as the Clinton "troopergate" scandal, and then 
had the stories seeded in the various conservative media outlets. Once 
the story would become popular enough it would be picked up by the 
conservative mainstream press such as the Washington Post and Wall 
Street Journal.

I don't have any problem with news organizations emphasizing a 
particular point of view, but when they manufacture slanders that's 
another thing. Typical stories include blaming Clinton for 
orchestrating a killing spree that claimed nearly 40 lives, and using 
the CIA to smuggle duffle bags full of coke to satiate his enormous 
drug habits.

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