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« I've never seen one land, but i always look up to make sure when i'm passing through | Main | You're Welcome, South Africa » Obama Administration Perfecting the Use of the Media as a Propaganda MouthpieceIn today's Guardian, Glenn Greenwald writes: The Obama White House's extreme fixation on secrecy is shaped by a bizarre paradox. One the one hand, the current administration has prosecuted double the number of whistleblowers - government employees who leak classified information showing high-level official wrongdoing - than all previous administrations combined. Obama officials have also, as ACLU lawyers documented this week in the Guardian, resisted with unprecedented vigor any attempts to subject their conduct to judicial review or any form of public disclosure, by insisting to courts that these programs are so secretive that the US government cannot even confirm or deny their existence without damaging US national security. In the article, Greenwald gives two examples of the difference in how two NYT journalists are treated when one writes glorifying articles on successful government missions and the other points out the mistakes. I don't think they need to amend that ban on domestic dissemination of propaganda. They've already figured out how to spread government misinformation. By min | June 8, 2012, 12:28 PM | Liberal Outrage |