Posted on 04/09/2012 12:46:21 PM PDT by ColdOne
The White House is pushing back against the media for what it sees as oversaturated coverage of this week’s forthcoming North Korean missile test.
“You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know this is a propaganda exercise,” National Security Council spokesperson Tommy Vietor told me. “Reporters have to be careful not to get co-opted.”
The long-range missile test -- which the country is touting as a peaceful satellite launch -- has given networks, newspapers, and wires a rare opportunity to report from within the country. NBC’s Richard Engel, ABC’s Bob Woodruff, and CNN’s Stan Grant are among those who have already produced curtain-raising segments on the days ahead. The Associated Press is turning out blow-by-blow coverage, and reporters are tweeting and filing frequently.
But Vietor fears that by flooding the zone in North Korea, U.S. media outlets are providing the country’s leadership with propaganda tools that will only embolden their efforts to enhance its intercontinental ballistic missile capability.
“North Korea is trying to sell this to the world as being about space exploration, when really it’s about testing missile technology,” he told me. “They’re using the press, using this angle of a space mission, to hide their real goal.”
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Good Grief!
Whew. For a second there I thought the regime was warning NK.
How many divisions does MSNBC have?
... oh wait! I meant to say that IRAN will be launching guests..
... oh Wait! I meant to say that BOTH Iran AND the White House will be guests of NK at the launching.
Obama to MSM:
“All your co-opting are belong to us!”
“Reporters have to be careful not to be co-opted”
That’s my full day’s supply of irony.
>The White House is pushing back against the media for what it sees as oversaturated coverage of this week’s forthcoming North Korean missile test.<
Translation: Per the memo, all efforts should be directed toward inciting our desired race war by July.
Thank you, the administration.
Shaking in their boots they are...
Looking under the rock is the only way to find out what’s there. I just wish the media would overturn the Obama administration rock.
Videos of mobile missile launchers in Tokyo is oversaturation?
NK can’t even feed its own people, but it sure can impress us with its 40-year-old rocket technology.
For a second there I thought NK regime was warning the media.
For a second there I thought NK regime was warning the media.
“You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know this is a propaganda exercise,” National Security Council spokesperson Tommy Vietor told me. “Reporters have to be careful not to get co-opted.”
OK, we agree, but what about North Korea?
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