Propaganda 9

Stop de persen, het laatste nieuws!!! Het is allemaal niet waar. Hij heeft het wel gezegd, maar het was allemaal onzin, buhnewerk, praatjes voor de pers, die het dan ook braaf doorgaf. Public Relations, Marketing, Performance. President Bush zei tijdens zijn State of the Union dat het machtigste land ter wereld in de toekomst niet langer meer afhankelijk zal zijn van de olie uit het Midden Oosten. Common Dreams bericht: 'Administration Backs Off Bush's Vow to Reduce Mideast Oil Imports. WASHINGTON - One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America's dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said Wednesday that the president didn't mean it literally. What the president meant, they said in a conference call with reporters, was that alternative fuels could displace an amount of oil imports equivalent to most of what America is expected to import from the Middle East in 2025. But America still would import oil from the Middle East, because that's where the greatest oil supplies are. The president's State of the Union reference to Mideast oil made headlines nationwide Wednesday because of his assertion that "America is addicted to oil" and his call to "break this addiction."
Bush vowed to fund research into better batteries for hybrid vehicles and more production of the alternative fuel ethanol, setting a lofty goal of replacing "more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025." He pledged to "move beyond a petroleum-based economy and make our dependence on Middle Eastern oil a thing of the past." Not exactly, though, it turns out. "This was purely an example," Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said.' Lees verder: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0202-05.htm Maar deze follow-up krijgen we niet van het NOS-Journaal te horen en te zien. Philip Freriks heeft gelijk: televisie gaat ook om performance, heel onrechtvaardig allemaal.