Free Press Lists White House Attacks on Media
Free Press–founded by Robert W. McChesney, professor at the University of Illinois–speaks out againt the Bush Administrationâs tactics, saying
Americaâs leadership is waging a war against the journalistic standards and practices that underpin not only a free press but our democracy. The Fourth Estate is withering under an unprecedented White House assault designed to intimidate, smear and discredit investigative journalism…
Then it lists seven areas of attack:
Infiltrating public broadcasting with party loyalists
Manufacturing fake news and propaganda
Bribing journalists to flack for the administration
Gutting the Freedom of Information Act
Deceiving media (and the U.S. public) about Iraq
Stifling dissent within mainstream media
Consolidating media control into the hands of the elite
