Percpetions can be managed by mass media and PR experts. The govmnt used a marketing firm to hire that girl to testify that babies were taken from incubators in Kuwait prior to the 1991 Iraq invasion, you recall.
Also many of the Town Halls on Health reform were staged to create "outrage" videos and were deliberately disruptive for effect.
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Bush Spent $1.6 Bil. on 'Spin'
By Richard Williamson
"DALLAS- The Bush Administration spent $1.4 billion in taxpayer dollars on 137 contracts with advertising agencies over the past two-and-a-half years, according to a Government Accountability Office report released by House Democrats today"
"Ketchum was embroiled in a scandal last year when it was revealed that the Department of Education had paid commentator Armstrong Williams $250,000 to promote President Bush's No Child Left Behind initiative. There was no suggestion of impropriety for most of the contracts, however. GSD&M, for example, has handled advertising for the U.S. Air Force for several years, an account it won through a traditional government review."
"Trends in spending on PR and ad contracts were not documented, but a prior study by the minority staff of the Government Reform Committee found that spending on public relations contracts rose rapidly under the Bush administration. That report found that spending on contracts with public relations firms had increased to $88 million in 2004 from $39 million in 2000, an increase of 128 percent."
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