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Thursday, January 23, 2003
Bush Administration
Spaming Newspaper
With Pro War Messages
"It looks like the Bush Administration is astroturfing, trying to artificially create the appearance of a grassroots movement supporting their policies", says Jules Age in Declan McCullagh's politechbot list. "A Google search on the phrase "demonstrating genuine leadership" returns a number of nearly identical letters sent to the editors of various newspapers and publications this month, each one with the name of a different individual attached. Apparently the propaganda machine is in full swing." Declan have remains sceptical at beggining. He thoughts that Republican direct mail efforts are doing it. But his investigations revealed that spam section is a new wide branch in Bush's administration. "Clearly I should have followed the links more carefully last night before sending out the earlier message." - says Declan - "Mea culpa. The GOP appears to have been caught. Also, Jack King did a Westnews search and found the identical letter in the Deseret News, The Gazette, The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA), and The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA)." A message of Jonathan Weinberg to Declan put him in the right way. "No, the point is that the *entire letters* are verbatim,
word-for-word, identical; searching for the catchphrase is just how you find them on google. Read the links. No matter how big the country is, it doesn't contain a large number of people who
independently come up with the exact same 130-word letter." - said Weinberg. Sam Werberg complete the information: "More than a coincidence here. These identical letters were all sent
through the Republican National Committee's letter-to-the-editor service, as pointed out by the Eatthestate.org folks in the first letter below.
(opinion from Sam) Nothing particularly sinister I suppose, if it represents actual individual citizens voicing their opinions. What is bothersome though it that it's just another sign of people being unable to express and articulate their own opinion. And that is certainly not limited to any one political party (/opinion)".
post by vasco on 11:37 AM
That's it!!!! I get it!!!!! Now I can take care of the main matter of this blog....
post by vasco on 11:11 AM
I'm trying to insert a bloglinker entry but there's no way that stuff works!
post by vasco on 11:05 AM
Wednesday, January 22, 2003
I'm going to post a lot of stuff about netwar. It will be writed in many languages. Portuguese is my heart language. But english is the language of the Net. Then i'm writing in this heartless language to build a web. Spider web is the language of life, the ground where world is builded. I hope that you enjoy the show.
post by vasco on 1:41 AM