Need video footage of Meg Whitman events for your local news broadcast? Well, she’ll be happy to send it to you, free of charge:

Are you concerned about the decline in quality of the political media? Well, fear not. Meg Whitman has offered to fill in the gaps where the old-fashioned free press has faltered.

Whitman’s campaign has put television stations around the state on notice that it will be sending daily video images of the candidate on the campaign trail, just in case a station wants to put any of them on the air.

“We are starting something brand new at the Whitman campaign … so you can more easily provide your viewers with breaking news from California’s gubernatorial campaign,” the campaign wrote in a statement.(LA Times)

That’s it, no need to send a reporter to “ask questions” when you can just roll Meg Whitman’s video press release.

You know who else did this? Well, George W Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger, that’s who.  Conveniently enough, you can even cut out the credits and roll them like they were real news! So, the White House just literally provided news footage to some small news programs.  How very Politburo of the Whitman campaign (and the Bush White House…but we really need not say that, do we?).