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The New Clinton Propaganda Machine
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 The New Clinton Propaganda Machine
By: Jack ShaferPoliticians don't call it dissembling, deceiving, or lying. They call it media management, and no administration has practiced this black art better in recent times than that of President Bill Clinton.
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By: Jack ShaferPoliticians don't call it dissembling, deceiving, or lying. They call it media management, and no administration has practiced this black art better in recent times than that of President Bill Clinton. In his 1998 book, Spin Cycle: Inside the Clinton Propaganda Machine, Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post describes how, after the disastrous first half of the first term, the Clintonites learned how to stage and contain the news by "alternately seducing, misleading, and sometimes intimidating the press." Kurtz continues:[W]hat the White House press operatives did was to launder the news—to scrub it of dark scandal stains, remove unsightly splotches of controversy, erase greasy dabs of contradictions, and present it to the country crisp and sparkling white.These lessons weren't lost on Hillary Clinton, in part because she taught many of them after having endured what she considered two years of press hell. As "co-president," she already held a "distrust of the press ... even deeper than her husband's" when she arrived in Washington, Kurtz writes. And she acted on it. Shortly after Clinton took office, she proposed evicting the White House press corps from the West Wing and resettling them in the Old Executive Office Building, he reports.
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