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Astroturfing in action

October 21st, 2005 Leave a comment Go to comments

5 unsigned editorials magically appear across the country with identical language .

All of them are unsigned editorials, which makes it look like they’re original opinion pieces for each paper. (The Colorado Gazette even says it’s “our view.”)

And they all happen to say exactly the same thing.

the papers involved are owned by Freedom Communications, Inc. (although, oddly enough, they all list different owners on their websites, with variations on the “Freedom” theme). It’s still a no-no for papers to run these as if they’re house editorials — and therefore somehow the result of a spontaneous convergence of editorial opinion across the country, as opposed to just being reprints.

I was unaware that GOP had perfected mind meld technology or perhaps telepathy. Then again, given the size of brains involved and their lack of activity, the GOP’s level of difficulty for such an operation is not exceedingly high. They don’t even need 1.21 gigawatts of electricity to complete the technology.

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