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Saturday, May 10, 2008 12:00 AM

How the military analyst program controlled news coverage: in the Pentagon's own words

"We develop a core group from within our media analyst list of those that we can count on to carry our water. They become the key go to guys for the networks and it begins to weed out the less reliably friendly analysts by the networks themselves."

Glenn Greenwald

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Sunday, May 11, 2008 03:18 PM

Pentagon media-manipulation program

The more things change, the more they stay the same:

"The [US] media's feat in transforming the Salvadoran "security forces," aptly described as "a deranged killing machine," into "protectors of an incipient democracy" is, I believe, a propaganda achievement that totalitarian states might conceivably approach, but never surpass."

Edward S. Herman, Professor of Finance, Wharton School,

University of Pennsylvania, in Covert Action Bulletin, Number 21 (Spring 1984) page 7, regarding the Salvadoran elections of 1984.

—Bill Becker Read Bill Becker's other letters

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