The controversial program I discovered this past week at the U.S. Department of State has gotten an incredible response since WND published my article about two days ago.The piece, "Obama assembling de facto propaganda ministry - Administration reveals plans to buy media broadcasts," has been redistributed via countless thousands of social media, and blogs -- and a full two days has not even passed.
An exact-phrase Google search of the article produces over 5,200 hits, for example (while a general search, which no doubt offers a less accurate picture, produces 1.2 million hits). Sources of dissemination directly from the WND.com site refer to 1,400 "likes" via Facebook, in addition to 215 "tweets" as well connections through other sources such as LinkedIn. WND readers likewise posted 283 comments on the article thus far.
WND "is a Top 500 website, according to Alexa.com, the search and ratings agency affiliate of Amazon.com, and the No. 1 independent news site. WND currently attracts nearly 5 million unique visitors a month and more than 40 million pageviews, according to its own internal monitoring software."
Specific to my article, noticeably absent is subsequent mainstream media coverage of State's propaganda plans, despite publicly providing links to source documents. Hmm.
Soon I will re-post the article here, giving time to ensure that I satisfy my obligations to WND giving it exclusive rights for 48 hours.
-- Steve Peacock, founder, investigative reporter,U. S. Trade & Aid Monitor
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