White House boasts: We 'control' news media

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Quote:White House boasts: We 'control' news media
Communications chief offers shocking confession to foreign government

By Aaron Klein© 2009 WorldNetDaily

TEL AVIV – President Obama's presidential campaign focused on "making" the news media cover certain issues while rarely communicating anything to the press unless it was "controlled," White House Communications Director Anita Dunn disclosed to the Dominican government at a videotaped conference.

"Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn't absolutely control," said Dunn.

"One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters," said Dunn, referring to Plouffe, who was Obama's chief campaign manager.

"We just put that out there and made them write what Plouffe had said as opposed to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter. So it was very much we controlled it as opposed to the press controlled it," Dunn said.

Continued Dunn: "Whether it was a David Plouffe video or an Obama speech, a huge part of our press strategy was focused on making the media cover what Obama was actually saying as opposed to why the campaign was saying it, what the tactic was. … Making the press cover what we were saying."

Video of Dunn's remarks at the conference can be seen below:



Dunn was speaking at a Jan. 12, 2009, event focusing on Obama's media tactics and hosted by the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development, which seeks to promote collaboration between the U.S. and the Dominican Republic. The event was held in Santo Domingo and was attended by the country's president.

Dunn has been facing some criticism since she led a White House campaign last week against Fox News, slamming the top-rated network as an "arm of the Republican Party" and "opinion journalism masquerading as news."

Fox hit back this past Friday, releasing a video of Dunn speaking to high school students last June in which she lists her two "favorite political philosophers," including Communist Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung, whose draconian policies are blamed for the deaths of tens of millions of people.

Video of Dunn's speech, broadcast during a segment of Glenn Beck's evening show on the Fox News Channel, can be seen below:

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.. and Hollywood (Disney, Dreamworks et. al) is attempting to further muzzle their talent as best they can on the 'net via the legal system.

Quote:In accordance with the industry's long tradition of keeping its biggest names on a tight leash, Disney and DreamWorks have both decided that the "talent" needs to be kept under close control online. Both studios have inserted clauses into employment contracts to stop stars sharing personal thoughts that might interfere with their carefully-honed public images.

Legal experts say the move smacks of old-fashioned control-freakery. "This is just the beginning," a lawyer told the Reporter. "Hollywood has a long history of controlling what talent says in the media. [Twitter] is just a new area of media that hasn't been controlled yet."

The crackdown follows several incidents in which stories that, in the past, might have been spoon-fed to a pliant local media were instead directly, and chaotically, announced via social networking sites.

Among the stars affected are Cameron Diaz and Mike Myers, both of whom reportedly signed contracts with an anti-Twitter clause. The pair are set to reprise their roles in a Shrek follow-up next year for DreamWorks.

Quite how this will affect Ashton Kutcher's ability to "tweet" photographs of wife Demi Moore's bottom remains to be seen: the contracts, quoted in a front-page story in The Hollywood Reporter, are so vaguely worded as to be potentially all-encompassing.

Full Story: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/ne...jectid=10604310

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ES Wrote:Fox hit back this past Friday, releasing a video of Dunn speaking to high school students last June in which she lists her two "favorite political philosophers," including Communist Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung

Fox are pissed that the Obama's staff claim to have more control of what people hear, watch and read than them lol :(

Mao! - well, he was genocidally charasmatic, I guess :rolleyes:..not altogether a surprise.

FT Wrote:. and Hollywood (Disney, Dreamworks et. al) is attempting to further muzzle their talent as best they can on the 'net via the legal system.

A depoliticisation drive amongst the stars.How eerily novel if not a totally suprising announcement. Now they just need full on gene tech brought to bare on any of their prospective progeny and it's a done deal. salut!