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title: Presidential letters to the editor
date: "2003-01-18T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 974
description: I discovered a report on a White House marketing campaign disguised as grassroots letters to the editor. It reveals how political messaging is surreptitiously seeded into local newspapers to influence public opinion.
keywords: [letters to the editor, political marketing, astroturfing, media manipulation, presidential communications]
---

[Letters to the Editor](http://atrios.blogspot.com/2003_01_12_atrios_archive.html#90188922). Except that they're a marketing campaign. By the President, no less. [via Scripting News](http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2003/01/17#When:6:04:45PM)