{"id":1547,"date":"2005-03-16T11:39:57","date_gmt":"2005-03-16T18:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/governator-is-taking-pr-cues-from-duhbya\/"},"modified":"2005-03-16T11:39:57","modified_gmt":"2005-03-16T18:39:57","slug":"governator-is-taking-pr-cues-from-duhbya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/governator-is-taking-pr-cues-from-duhbya\/","title":{"rendered":"Governator is taking PR cues from Duhbya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Nation | Blog | The Daily Outrage | Ari Berman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blogs\/outrage?bid=6\">The Nation | Blog | The Daily Outrage | Ari Berman<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, the Governator is taking PR cues from George W. Bush.<\/p>\n<p><b>Last week the California Governor&#8217;s office admitted to sending at least five <i>fake<\/i> news segments hyping Arnold&#8217;s policies<\/b> to local TV stations under the guise of real news. The mock news spots&#8211;sent out to stations in December&#8211;promote an end to mandatory lunch breaks for workers, cuts in the number of nurses at hospitals, a revised pay scheme for teachers and stricter tenure track for professors.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the Los Angeles Times&#8217; description of the segments: &#8220;A written introduction offers suggested opening lines to be read by television news anchors. A state employee, who previously worked as a reporter for a Sacramento television station, is the narrator. Each video includes interviews with advocates for the proposals. The tapes do not acknowledge dissenting views or offer balance as required in news accounts.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nation | Blog | The Daily Outrage | Ari Berman Amazingly, the Governator is taking PR cues from George W. Bush. Last week the California Governor&#8217;s office admitted to sending at least five fake news segments hyping Arnold&#8217;s policies to local TV stations under the guise of real news. The mock news spots&#8211;sent out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/governator-is-taking-pr-cues-from-duhbya\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Governator is taking PR cues from Duhbya<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}