A former CNN excutive has written a very critical book about the declining integrity and value of the media today, and about the propaganda machine.

Order the book here, and support the Buzzflash.com website: News Flash: Journalism, Infotainment and the Bottom-Line Business of Broadcast News by Bonnie Anderson.

Buzzflash has many more similar offering of activist books and videos, trying to shake things up to stop the propaganda and deceit and erosion of civil liberties.

Regular readers know that I focus a lot of attention on the media and journalism and propaganda and the spinwits. But I ain’t nobody, just a guy with attitude.

This lady below, Bonnie Anderson, is SOMEBODY. Listen to her.

Bonnie M. Anderson Newsflash

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BuzzFlash: Well, we seem to have come full circle because the White House has been outed for using, on at least two occasions, if not more, these promotional video releases presented as news.

Bonnie M. Anderson: Yes.

BuzzFlash: The videos imply that a journalist is covering the story, when it’s really an actor. This prepackaged footage is called “B-roll,” but it’s really B-roll being used as a news story.

Bonnie M. Anderson: To me, this was a huge development and it’s what’s wrong with journalism in this country. You have an Administration lying to the public and participating in pulling the wool over the eyes of the public to advance their own agenda. Call me old school. Call me old fashioned or a dinosaur, but I think government should be about protecting the Bill of Rights. Government should be truthful to the American public, and not about trying to manipulate the public and, in this case, also manipulating the media. We also had commentators who were pretending to give their honest opinion on issues, when they were being paid by the Administration to promote an agenda. This, to me, is very, very frightening. Red flags should be going up all over this country. Unfortunately, I’m not so sure that there will be that sort of national debate or alarm over this. It is horrific.