Bush’s Filtered News
By Michael Kinsley
Friday, October 17, 2003; Page A29
To President Bush, the news is like a cigarette. You can get it filtered or unfiltered. And which way does he prefer it? Well, that depends on the circumstances. When he is trying to send a message to the public, Bush prefers to have it go out unfiltered. He feels, for example, that the ”good news about Iraq” is getting filtered out by the national media. ”Somehow you just got to go over the heads of the filter and speak directly to the people,” he said the other day. So, lately, he has been talking to local ...
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