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To: nutmeg; SE Mom; onyx; Liz; maggief; All

Oh jeeze .. they have to have an Emergency
Internet Scrub Team on call 24/7.

If the rest of the folks out there knew what
we know .. that they have teams of drones
employed to banish contrary info on the web,
they’d be shocked.

This is merely the tip of the iceberg:

“Six years after its founding to counter what it said was “conservative misinformation,” Media Matters for America employs a staff of 70 that spends 19 hours a day monitoring newspapers, magazines, broadcast and cable television, talk radio, and the Internet to counter reporting or commentary it deems to be inaccurate or biased.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34016.html#ixzz0hc4NE2Kc


138 posted on 03/08/2010 10:27:10 AM PST by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: STARWISE

Welcome to the USSR. It’s critical to control the content of the news.


142 posted on 03/08/2010 10:35:02 AM PST by onyx (BE A MONTHLY DONOR - I AM)
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To: STARWISE; StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; ...
GREAT post, STARWISE. I forgot all about Media Matters and their drones.

FRiends, check out STARWISE's post #138 above:

Oh jeeze .. they have to have an Emergency
Internet Scrub Team on call 24/7.

If the rest of the folks out there knew what
we know .. that they have teams of drones
employed to banish contrary info on the web,
they’d be shocked.

This is merely the tip of the iceberg:

“Six years after its founding to counter what it said was “conservative misinformation,” Media Matters for America employs a staff of 70 that spends 19 hours a day monitoring newspapers, magazines, broadcast and cable television, talk radio, and the Internet to counter reporting or commentary it deems to be inaccurate or biased.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34016.html#ixzz0hc4NE2Kc

146 posted on 03/08/2010 10:39:55 AM PST by nutmeg (Rush Limbaugh & Sarah Palin agree: NO third parties! Take back the GOP)
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