All Three Mainstream News Networks are Little More Than Shameless Parrots for White House Propaganda!

• All three mainstream news networks are little more than shameless parrots for  White House propaganda! 
  by J. D. Heyes, http://www.naturalnews.com/ 
  Most Americans know that the three major broadcast networks – ABC, CBS, and NBC – are well-oiled echo chambers and propaganda arms of  the current White House regime, but more are likely to become convinced by this  latest example of what I like to call “talking points reporting.”
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  You may  have heard that the U.S. economy is in trouble. In fact, it is continuing to  flounder under the policies of Barack Obama (no, it is no longer the “Bush  economy”), a fact reflected by the still-anemic job growth (only 88,000 new jobs  were created in March, while 495,000 Americans simply dropped out of the  workforce completely) [http://www.foxnews.com].
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  ‘Solidarity’
  In response to this, our chivalrous president, claiming  “solidarity” with struggling workers, announced April 3 that he would take a 5  percent pay cut. While we can debate the impact of that cut – the president  lives, eats and travels and the expense of the U.S. taxpayer – the real “story”  here is how the three major broadcast networks framed the  announcement.
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  Which is to say, the reporting was virtually identical. From NewsBusters.org:
  On Good Morning  America, Josh Elliott trumpeted, “[Obama] says he wants to show  solidarity with government workers who face a furlough because of budget  cuts.”
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  Over on NBC’s Today, Natalie Morales touted, “In an  attempt at solidarity with federal workers feeling the sequester spending  cuts, President Obama is  giving himself a 5 percent pay cut on his $400,000-a-year salary.” Offering a  remarkably similar thought, World News anchor Diane Sawyer rounded up the  amount to a year’s total: “That’s $20,000, to show solidarity with  government employees who will be furloughed.” In an impressed tone, the host  praised, “The White House says Obama will personally write a check to the  Treasury.”
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  There’s more. CBS Evening News‘s Scott Pelley said  during his broadcast later in the day, “President Obama will return 5  percent of his salary each month as a show of solidarity with federal  workers whose pay was reduced by those recent across-the-board budget  cuts.”
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  NewsBusters.org noted that while the term solidarity  wasn’t uttered, well-known Obama fan and co-host of CBS This Morning,  after recounting his announcement, gushed, “Thank you, President  Obama!” Remarkably similar, wouldn’t you say?
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  “Over the last four  years, journalists have been parroting Obama’s talking points. Usually, however,  they rephrase the words slightly. On Wednesday and Thursday, all three networks  somehow settled on ‘solidarity,'” NewsBusters.org noted.
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  There was  at least one voice of sanity among the mainstream  media, and it came from – surprisingly – the Washington Post. In a  blog post examining Obama’s plan to return $1,700 a month of his annual $400,000  salary to the U.S. Treasury, Lisa Rein and Ed O’Keefe wrote:
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  Obama  cannot claim true solidarity with most federal employees. He has published two  best-selling autobiographies and the vast majority of his income comes in the  form of royalties. According to tax returns, the president and Michelle Obama  made $750,000 in 2011. In the previous year, the couple made $1.8 million and in  2009 they reported an annual income of $5.5 million.
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