Garry Trudeau: Bush 'Apparently Thinks Propaganda's OK'

[True_Blue]

NEW YORK Why is Garry Trudeau doing a "Doonesbury" sequence inspired by disgraced Republican-friendly reporter Jeff Gannon?

"I'm not sure it's commonly understood to what lengths this administration is willing to go to bypass the 'filter,' as Bush calls the media," the cartoonist replied in an e-mail interview. "The president made it official Wednesday -- his Justice Department, fresh from signing off on torture, apparently thinks propaganda's OK too."

When asked if he thought the press has underreported the Gannon episode, pundit payola, and other examples of media manipulation, Trudeau said: "It's not that it's been underreported so far. It's just that the media, in both its own and the public's interest, ought to stay with this story. If Bush is prepared to defend fake news, then the media should be equally prepared to say why it's anti-democratic and an abuse of power."

Trudeau, who was referring to George W. Bush's remarks about government-created video news releases for TV stations, started the "Doonesbury" sequence this Monday and said he will continue it through next week. In it, Secretary of Toady Affairs Andrews finds a "stooge" to replace Gannon as a lobber of softball questions in the White House press corps. He's Roland Hedley, the narcissistic journalist long known to "Doonesbury" readers.

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[Carolab]

1. My god. So we're reduced to comic strips & the Daily Show for truth. n/t

[applegrove]

2. Yup. And they will attack those two.. but comedians have thicker

skins. And they do not have careers that could be ruined on a time. That is the big tool of sociopaths.. destroy somebody's livelyhood and you can take away their dreams and choices. That is why the only other group who will tell us the truth are octogenarians and the newly retired.