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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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  • Sunday, May 11, 2008 08:49 PM

    @Pedinska

    Just what this blog needs.

    Another humorless ass.

    ;-)

    I think J has some creative arguments, his politics are mostly acceptable, but he is that scary kind of "liberal" that even I want distance myself from. Or maybe I'm getting older and more conservative. Maybe he'll settle down if I stop teasing him.

    —L.W.M. Read L.W.M.'s other letters

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