Big Brother Isn't Just Watching You, He's Telling You What To Think.

Right here in our fair city of Memphis, one of the members of our local media has been hornswaggled into "unwittingly" putting together a television news segment using propaganda generated by our own State Department as her basis for for corroborating the government's case on its foreign policy. As you will see in his piece about a local reporter's brush with glory, autoegocrat lays it out plain as day. The Bush administration's policy of manipulating the media with prepackaged news using government workers disguised as actual news reporters has been going on for more than a little while. Everyone should read autoegocrat's piece -- if it doesn't make you angry at the government for playing the role of Big Brother to the hilt, I probably couldn't stand to sit across a table from you and have a conversation. But more importantly, how does any reporter, even a local television news reporter not know that she is quoting directly from State Department manuscript in her piece? I'm with autoegocrat, something's fishy here.

Get angry, people. Get very, very angry.