USA TODAY: … The news service would feature news articles by state press secretaries that would be published on a website and made available for use by news outlets around the state, according to documents obtained by The Indianapolis Star and published on IndyStar.com Monday night. It would be directed by a former Star reporter.
The government news agency ploy attracted ridicule as soon as it surfaced. As well it should have. The idea immediately brought to mind sanitized propaganda arms of the type featured by communist regimes. The Atlantic dubbed the faux news outlet “Pravda on the Plains.”
Once the plan went public, Pence, considered a potential 2016 candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, began running away from it as quickly as he could. All Just IN was going to be, he said, was a one-stop repository for press releases and such… (more)
EDITOR: Unwittingly, Indiana would be following in the footsteps of totalitarian governments throughout the world. Hungary has recently launched such a web site.
