woensdag 12 februari 2014

De Mainstream Pers 142


Paul heeft een nieuwe reactie op uw bericht "De Mainstream Pers 141" achtergelaten: 

Hoi Stan,

Je schrijft: "De woordvoerders van de macht weten precies wanneer ze dienen te zwijgen en wanneer te liegen, en wat wel en niet mag."

Een aardig doorkijkje in dat kader is te vinden in de recente toespraak van Jane Mayer n.a.v. het krijgen van de I.F. Stone-prijs:

http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/103042/Access-Is-Overrated.aspx

Ze beschrijft hoe ze, min of meer uit naïviteit, wilde laten zien hoe onder Ronald Reagan pseudo-events voor de pers georganiseerd werden:
"Eager to reveal the extensive and expansive stagecraft behind Reagan’s presidency, I thought it would be great to fly to Grenada ahead of the president’s visit there to celebrate the first anniversary of America’s victory over leftist forces on the tiny backward Caribbean island. So I went to Grenada a week ahead of the president and I watched as his image advisers oversaw the paving of all these little dirt roads, and one Air Force cargo plane after the next landed in this little dirt patch of an airport carrying limousines and ambulances and bleachers and flags and everything else. 

It made for a great story, but when the offending story was published, what I remember was sitting in the press briefing room and the president’s spokesman at the time, Larry Speakes, looked across the podium at me. He was red-faced and angry and he said, “You are out of business!” 

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