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To: bvw
You're right. I remember the Clinton administration putting out a "report" showing (with flowcharts) how the right-wing purports to make news by first seeding outlier sites with stories, and then having those stories picked up by the networks, thereby putting the "news" into the mainstream without the MSM dirtying themselves by reporting the stories first.

Of course, this was the typical liberal behavior of projecting onto the Right what they themselves are doing.

I wish I can find that report, but I'm not using the right search terms.

-PJ

55 posted on 07/25/2010 4:35:01 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

The 1992 Clinton War Room was the genesis of the later Media Matters and such Soros-funded entities. See Byron York’s “The vast left wing conspiracy” Chapter 7: http://books.google.com/books?id=hYu4NTKo2DwC&pg=PT105&lpg=PT105#v=onepage&q&f=false

Also a TV documentary: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/arts/television/13war.html


57 posted on 07/25/2010 4:47:51 PM PDT by bvw
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To: Political Junkie Too

The original Clinton War Room operated out of Little Rock Arkansas during his run for President. The War Room that birthed the ‘vast left wing conspiracy’ was the one established in the White House in early June 1993 to orchestrate and drive the media cycle pro-Clinton, and also to suppress anti-Clinton stories.

Which they did very well! But then Hollywood gift-shop employee Matt Drudge posted on alt.sex.stories: “hello from sex drenched Hollywood”, date 28 December 1994, and from there moved onward ....

Matt started offering a gossip newsletter to the general public in March 1995, and Clinton rumor content in it appeared as early as a week later.

Source for Drudge history: http://www.soundbitten.com/020110.html

The Internet USENET was a lively backchannel but public source of Clinton stories in those years of 1994 thru 1998. I can speak as a participant on some of those ALT groups like ‘Whitewater’.

Even on the wild wide open USENET then it was clear a somewhat coordinated disinformation group operated some of them calling themselves ‘weasels’. They clogged and jammed the USENET channel fairly effectively by 1997. That’s why Free Republic was so great as a forum of refuge.

Drudge opened a website in 1997, and broke the Monica tale in 1998. DRUDGE WAS NOT AN OUTLET MANAGED BY THE WAR ROOM (imo).

I first posted at FR via a link thru Drudge, my first post was in support of Linda Tripp.


59 posted on 07/25/2010 5:11:07 PM PDT by bvw
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