Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: December 21, 2003 – December 27, 2003 Archives
In the Internet age, letters-to-the-editor page editors really need to do more due diligence.
Josh turns up some “cut-n-paste” letters to the editor in support of the President’s agenda: pure astroturf. (Astroturf is how “man-made grassroots” campaigns like this are referred to: not as pernicious as ballot-stuffing, but not we need in a democracy.)