The White House Iraq Group (WHIG) coordinated an unprecedented media manipulation campaign in September 2002 to build public support for the Iraq War. On September 7-8, 2002, top administration officials including Cheney, Rice, and Rumsfeld appeared on all five major Sunday news programs, delivering …
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White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett and Press Secretary Ari Fleischer establish systematic rapid response coordination with television network reporters and executives to ensure synchronized administration messaging during the Iraq campaign rollout. Building on Bartlett’s 2000 …
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In August 2002, the White House Iraq Group (WHIG) formalized a systematic media coordination infrastructure through strategic meetings with television network executives. By establishing pre-arranged booking protocols, talking point distribution systems, and synchronized messaging frameworks, they …
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The Bush administration establishes the Office of Global Communications (OGC) to ‘formulate and coordinate messages to foreign audiences,’ creating an unprecedented infrastructure for distributing daily talking points to reporters, television networks, U.S. embassies, and Congress. The …
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