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Learning from the Winners

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

The Center for Media and Democracy's John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton write, "Republican successes have not come quickly or easily. For more than four decades, conservatives have worked to build a network of grassroots organizations and think tanks that formulate and promote their ideas. They are now enjoying the fruits of this long-term investment." The right wing "has simply done a better job than anyone else of organizing from the grassroots up.

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AlterNet, November 15, 2004
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Think Tanks

A 72-Hour Plan, 30 Years in the Making

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

In an article (which draws from Disinfopedia and echoes Banana Republicans) anticipating the Republican Party's "72-hour plan" before the election, Joshua Holland writes, "Public relations firms like [Richard] Viguerie's have played an important and growing role in the popular conservative movement - you might call

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AlterNet, October 26, 2004
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Public Relations

Bush vs. the Laureates

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

"For nearly four years, and with rising intensity, scientists in and out of government have criticized the Bush administration, saying it has selected or suppressed research findings to suit preset policies, skewed advisory panels or ignored unwelcome advice, and quashed discussion within federal research agencies," reports Andrew Revkin. The clash has been especially intense and prolonged regarding the issue of global warming, where "scientists say that objective and relevant information is ignored or distorted in service of pre-established policy goals.

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Main Source: 
New York Times, October 19, 2004
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Climate Change
Science
U.S. Government

Faith-Based Presidency

Submitted by Laura Miller on

"In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush," journalist Ron Suskind writes. "He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend - but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

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Main Source: 
New York Times Magazine, October 17, 2004
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Iraq
U.S. Government

Sinclair's Journalism From Above

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

The Sinclair Broadcast Group, the single largest operator of local television stations in the United States, has gained notoriety after ordering its 62 local stations to preempt prime time programming to broadcast an anti-Kerry film a few days before the November 2, 2004 general election.

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Main Source: 
Chicago Tribune, October 16, 2004
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