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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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  • Saturday, May 10, 2008 08:36 AM

    @ DCLaw1

    So, regardless of who is surprised or not surprised by this outrageous story of blatant military propaganda operations, there is absolutely no excuse for the ensuing media blackout, based on some self-serving pretense that this sort of thing is common knowledge, so "let's move on."

    The media have the worst of egg on their faces and blood on their hands, and they want desperately for nobody to notice.

    Once you're finger gets tired of pointing at some indistinct objection off in the horizon of outraged indignation...what EXACTLY do you want done about it? Or is that beside the point? Heh.

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