Libby Trial Drops the PSYOPS Curtain

A week into the trial, and already Government By Media is being exposed. The testimony is amazing. People are singing like Maria Callas.

Check this AP story:

Libby trial provides lesson on spinning media
Updated Sat. Jan. 27 2007 11:36 PM ET
Associated Press

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No one served up spicier morsels than Cheney's former top press assistant. Cathie Martin described the craft of media manipulation -- under oath and in blunter terms than politicians like to hear in public.

The uses of leaks and exclusives. When to let one's name be used and when to hide in anonymity. Which news medium was seen as more susceptible to control and what timing was most propitious. All candidly described. Even the rating of certain journalists as friends to favor and critics to shun -- a faint echo of the enemies list drawn up in Richard Nixon's White House more than 30 years ago.

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Martin offered these options in order:

* Put Cheney on Meet the Press.
* Leak an exclusive version to a selected reporter or the weekly news magazines.
* Have national security adviser Condoleezza Rice or Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld hold a news conference.
* Persuade a third party or columnist to write an opinion piece that would appear in newspapers on the page opposite the editorials.