I bought a copy of Nexus yesterday, now that they've finished their bizarre "the popeis evil and so is jesus" stuff. Corporatocracy not as interesting as padeophocracy, but good anyway.
Here's the RMs Foul Play.
Incidentally, something related: the manipulation of letters pages. I've done it myself, going to the letters pages to avoid the bias, the propaganda of the proprietor, etc.. Can't trust anything these days.
Jenny Kleeman, a Dispatches reporter, filmed much of this Channel 4
documentary while working undercover in New Labour's spin machine. Kleeman began working in Labour's London press office dealing with local and regional media
early in 2005. She quickly uncovered a series of deceptive tactics used by the party to influence the local media. This was part of a wider New Labour communications strategy to by-pass the (often very critical) national press and attempt to speak directly to the electorate through regional and local media. Kleeman was first tasked to work on media monitoring. In this job she was part of an orchestrated effort to influence the content of local newspaper letters pages. Working from an internal New Labour manual titled 'Making the Media Work for You' the idea was to exploit readers' high trust in the letters pages as a way of pushing New Labour's message. The tactic here was to get 'unobtrusive party members' to put their name to pre-scripted letters defending Labour's policies on the NHS and education. The sample of published letters the research team uncovered, all bearing the same phrases concocted by New Labour's spin doctors, suggests that this cynical exercise met with some success.
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