Newsweek and how propaganda works

Newsweek runs a story by a one Howard Kurtz on "Obama's messaging strategy ahead of 2012"

It includes this quote: “I think you need to talk about how poorly they [the White House] do on message,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi tells Newsweek’s Howard Kurtz. “They can’t see around corners; they anticipate nothing.”

Which she never said...

this is a horse that Kurtz definitely wanted out of the barn -- earlier Monday, it was the money quote he tweeted to his followers, teasing the piece. Three hours later, he corrected the record on Twitter. (According to Zeke Miller's tick-tock on Business Insider, Kurtz corrected Twitter sometime after the correction was appended to the piece online.)

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