Is the White House manipulating the media through Media Matters?

Hot Air.com ^ | February 13, 2012 | Ed Morrissey

[NativeNewYorker]

Is it manipulation if it’s consensual?

[Steamburg]

I don’t see media matters as really relevant in as much as every part of the MSM gets their daily talking points directly from the White Hut these days. A dictator who can regulate at will has no need for an unruly bunch of basement dwellers with a fax machine.

Media Matters needs to either start bundling a lot more money for the Bamster or hope they get back in the minority so they can claim to be shoehorning their guys back into power.

[do the dhue]

[elpadre]

what dos it take to qualify as a “propopanga machine” rather than a news outlet?? (Nazi style)

[ScottinVA]

Highly doubtful, because the WH doesn’t need to manipulate the “media”... they’re willingly curled at his feet and willing to do his bidding anyway. “Media Matters” isn’t even needed.

[DeaconRed]

Have you noticed there are no stories about the high price of Gas?

[Red Badger]

Does a bear do his business in the forest?.............

[Kaslin]

see the post below yours

[Red Badger]

...Brock’s executive assistant carried a handgun to public events

GASP!...............A Second amendment freak!............

[culpeper]

Wasn’t that always the point of it?

[Mouton]

Anyone who thinks the WH is not manipulating the media only has to think back to this line of questioning, in early January:
““George, this is an unusual topic that you’re raising,” Romney said. “States have the right to ban contraception? I can’t imagine that states would want to ban contraception. If I were a governor or a legislator in a state, I would totally oppose any effort to ban contraception. So you’re asking — given the fact that there’s no state that wants to do so — you are asking could it constitutionally be done?” Stephanopolis was given the heads up there was something coming on the contraception front by His Excellency and his job was to pin down the then front runner Romnesty.

[Kaslin]

I would change the Main Stream Media to State Run Media

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Right—doesn’t Mika Brezhinski get texts directly from the WH while she’s on Morning Schmoe?

[do the dhue]

hehe

that is true!

[certrtwngnut]

Or as Ziva said on NCIS, “does a bear sit in the woods”?

[Iron Munro]

Is the White House manipulating the media through Media Matters?

Do bears....?

[Jane Long]

That’s right...now we know why Georgie Stephie was so insistent on getting that “odd” contraceptive question out there.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

The MSM will be all over this story of illegality and corruption.

I can see the front page headline stories now.

Oh, I forgot ...

[KeyLargo]

The Ad Clint Should Have Made

Posted by John Stossel | February 10, 2012

Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/stossel/blog/2012/02/10/ad-clint-should-have-made#ixzz1mH4wfAWJ