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To: MNJohnnie
The Bully pulpit is a stupid term IMHO no President or Prime Minister truly has this it is down to the news media to cover it.

They can give speech after speech but if only the bits are shown that the media want to show that fit their agenda then it has no effect if people are not willing to actually make an effort to read the entire speech or actually know where it would be found, how many of the average Americans are aware of what is published on the White House website. Sometimes I wonder how many on this board are in fact aware what published on that website.

In a way Congress has the advantage here as like the British Parliament the debates are shown in full.

Many people in Britain would be aware that transcript of parliament are published (Hansard) but would they be aware or know where to go to see the PM’s speech at a local college or factory. I am sure the same applies in the US as well.

360 posted on 06/24/2007 10:15:55 AM PDT by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - Big Time))
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To: snugs
Brilliant post snugs it’s difficult to get around agenda reporting by the msm as MNJ says.
382 posted on 06/24/2007 10:39:04 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Support The New media, Ticket the Drive-bys, --America-The land of the Free because of the Brave-)
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