Ari Fleischer claims that government shouldn’t solve problems, that examples are bad illustrations of statistical trends, and that the unemployment rate isn’t a good measure of the economy. Wow, that’s brilliant maneuvering there, buddy. Let’s see who believes you… Oh, wait, you’re talking to lapdogs. Everyone.
EDS claims the Linux environment lacks securifying. And ZDNet publishes the press release as an article. Yay, that’s easy. If you say it enough, maybe it will become true. In fact, I’m pretty sure that my environment does lack both securification and stetic.
People were shocked when the government started releasing B-Roll press releases as news, but to me it’s just part of the “corporate presidency.” That means you get corporate-style PR, which of course includes prepackaged news stories given to the local news channels that can’t afford to produce their own real news, so they run this as filler. It goes hand in hand with corporate-style ethics.
Secretly Ironic 