Media Propaganda

[judith_s]

Mediamatters has a beautiful deconstruction how a made-up allegation goes from small comments to being reported as observed truth. In this case, it's about throwing Oreos at a Republican candidate during a debate. The story gets embellished, by the candidate and his staff, every time.

In other words, don't trust what you read.

Comments

[emzebel.livejournal.com]

Oddly, despite living in northern Virginia (and paying semi-attention to Maryland politics), I had never heard about this until it came up *yesterday* on a local NPR show, in which they played the WTOP clip referenced in that article where Steele basically says "I saw some cookies on the stage."

Crazy stuff.

[malabar.livejournal.com]

An appalling waste of perfectly good Oreos if it were true... (can you tell they aren't easily available here? ;)

[r-wolfcastle.livejournal.com]

I sent this to The Daily Show. Don't really expect it to show up there, but if they have slow news day, well, you never know...