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To: angkor
C-SPAN would cover it. So would all the blogs. The MSM is being bypassed more and more every month.

C-SPAN already covers this stuff, as do the blogs. In great detail, even. And yet we're still in this pickle. Why? Because the vast majority of people get their info (if they get it at all) from the MSM, not from C-SPAN and blogs, and that's unlikely to change.

But the Bush WH seems to want to play the Beltway game. They don't get it.

I think it's you who don't get it. You can't blame the Bush WH for this. Folks like us -- FReepers who pay attention to this stuff in the first place -- are a small minority. Most people get their info on Iraq by osmosis ... they glance at a headline passing by the news stand, see it on the Yahoo! news blurb on their way to the NBA scores, or hear a teaser on the CBS evening news. They don't bother to learn the details -- they essentially trust what the MSM is giving them.

27 posted on 11/23/2005 8:28:40 AM PST by r9etb
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To: r9etb
Because the vast majority of people get their info (if they get it at all) from the MSM, not from C-SPAN and blogs, and that's unlikely to change.

Uh huh.

That's why Republicans now control the White House, the House, the Senate, and the majority of governorships and legislatures, despite the Republican Party's traditionally atrocious PR efforts (e.g., "the Stupid Party").

What do you think enabled the sea change beginning in 1994? Seriously, tell me.

31 posted on 11/23/2005 8:43:49 AM PST by angkor
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