An Obama administration official says we need a special socialist wing of the media to promote the grand achievements of Dear Leader. Well, maybe so, but MSNBC isn’t going to appreciate the competition.
The whole plan is outlined in this article from the socialists down at People’s World:
The mainstream media has become so biased against working people that even a federal agency can’t get its message out, says a senior Department of Labor official.
President Obama’s Labor Department has an impressive list of accomplishments, but most of the media doesn’t bother to report on them, Carl Fillichio, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis’s senior adviser for public affairs and communications, told the annual gathering of the International Labor Communications Association.
Referring to the midterm elections, Fillichio said, “Why we fared the way we did three weeks ago is because things weren’t explained enough to people. There is a great need for people to get the full story.”
The role of labor media is therefore all the more precious, he continued. In many cases, the only way his department can get its accomplishments known is through the independent media.
“We battle every single day when we try to put something out,” he said. “The Washington Post, the New York Times, cable television” and others want to focus only on the nuts and bolts of policy issues. “Nobody is really telling the true story about how this is going to affect real people in real time in real ways.”
Fillichio announced at the meeting that he had hired a staff person specifically to deal with labor media, and then proceeded to give his name, e-mail address and phone number to everyone in the audience.
The message was appropriate for the crowd. ILCA, with nearly 500 members, is the professional association of newspapers, websites and other forms of media published by labor unions or about the labor movement across the country. (The People’s World is a member.)
Along this same line, you know what else we need? Some of those big, central squares in every city like they have in other countries. If we had some of those, we could cover them with giant murals of Dear Leader to inspire the people.
Yeah, that’s what we need.
H/T: WeaselZippers.us