Changing the press

I ran across a cool article about how the relationship between the White House and the press has changed dramatically in the last three years while McClellan has been the press secretary for the Bush Administration.

The article, well, articulates some of the ideas that I’ve felt like the administration has been choosing to pursue as a press strategy. It’s clearly written from a press perspective (and a fairly anti-Bush perspective) but the ideas are fun regardless of bias:

The era of news management lasted 40 years— from 1963, when the networks first began their 30-minute nightly broadcasts, to 2003, when McClellan, Bush, Cheney, and Rove proved there were other ways. Replace news management with press nullification. Drop the persuasion model, in favor of the politics of assent. Choose non-communication to demonstrate that you ought not to be questioned (it only helps our enemies.)

Ganked the link from Metafilter.