astroturf*

[metaphorge]

"But when the Wall Street Journal tried to find the guy who posted the film "Al Gore's Penguin Army" — listed on YouTube as a 29-year-old —they found the movie didn't come from an amateur working out of his basement.

The film actually came from a slick Republican public relations firm called DCI, which just happens to have oil giant Exxon as a client."

*propaganda produced by professional public relations or media outfits that disingenuously appears to be "grass roots"

Comments

[confusedpillow.livejournal.com]

fascinating and disturbing that someone would pump any significant amount of time or effort into that. hiring a firm for it? ridiculous.

[t3knomanser.livejournal.com]

Here's the thing that gets me. They think that piece of drek is representative of what the average internet-saavy American is capable of. I'm not talking about the video quality, per se, but... there was no cohesiveness. It wasn't a witty biting satire, it wasn't even a base parody- it was a collection of random ideas that could be spawned off of An Inconvienent Truth. When I watched it the first time, I couldn't tell if it was trying to be insulting or not.