According to Laura Ingraham this practice was started by Bill Clinton. The media never spoke of this during Clinton's administration. Ingraham had Howard Fineman on discussing this practice and Fineman didn't know it was started by Clinton. Ingraham embarrassed him.
If the media would report on stories we wouldn't need to find other outlets. Two million people in Lebanon are demonstrating against Syrian occupation and NBC's Today Show, a division of NBC News didn't give it ONE mention this morning, not even in their news updates. I called the show and got through to "story ideas" department and informed them of this demonstration. I'm sure will see it covered tomorrow.
According to Laura Ingraham this practice was started by Bill Clinton. The media never spoke of this during Clinton's administration. Ingraham had Howard Fineman on discussing this practice and Fineman didn't know it was started by Clinton. Ingraham embarrassed him.I think the practice is a bad idea no matter who does it. Government should not be putting out video press releases without informing the viewer as to the source of the video and the information it contains.
What is cause for concern is that Bush just said that in January, 2005, Bush said, "All our Cabinet secretaries must realize that we will not be paying commentators to advance our agenda. Our agenda ought to be able to stand on its own two feet."
And now we find out that both the White House lawyers and the Justice Dept. lawyers agree that as long as the (unattributed) video news release don't advocate a particular position, then they don't violate any laws.
Sounds like the WH has decided that it needs to 'sell' some of the red states on more federal programs and more federal spending.