Middle East Propaganda Effort Detailed

CJR Daily questions the refrain of "we didn't know" that have come from the White House regarding the latest news about military propaganda in Iraq.

Each time the Bush administration has been caught manufacturing news -- be it Karen Ryan or Mike Morris or Armstrong Williams or Maggie Gallagher and Mike McManus or Mike Vasilinda -- the Bushies claim innocence.

But Paul McLeary adds up the documented budgets of Middle East progaganda efforts and comes up with $57.6 million, "more than the annual newsroom budget allotted to most American newsrooms to cover all the news from everywhere for an entire year." (emphasis original)

All of that money was not spent by the Bush Administration -- although the majority of it was, and most was for Iraq. I'm not sure which is the worst scenario for democracy: that the White House truly didn't know about these efforts or that the White House is deliberately misleading the press (and, by extension, the citizenry).

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