'Green' Propaganda From the House of Bush.

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Bush Administration’s Press Manipulation More Widespread than Previously Thought

Friends of the Earth

The Department of the Interior (DOI) has been producing and releasing the same kind of misleading video news releases that have already generated controversy at other federal agencies. Responding to a Freedom of Information request from environmental groups Friends of the Earth and Bluewater Network, DOI provided several prepackaged video news releases that fail to disclose to TV viewers that they are government products.

“The American people deserve to know when their tax dollars are being used to create government propaganda that they are unknowingly watching on TV,” said Korey Hartwich, policy analyst at Friends of the Earth. “The GAO has already said that the government should not be producing this kind of propaganda. It’s time for the Bush administration to put a stop to it, in every department of government.”

Two releases contained no identifying information at all on the video footage itself:

* A release on producing methane hydrates from the ocean has no audio or video ID of DOI at the beginning of the footage, and ends with the audio, “In Tampa, Pam Forrester reporting.”

* A release on West Nile Virus also had no audio or video ID of DOI at the beginning of the footage, ending with the audio sign-off, “This is Porter Versfelt reporting.”

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