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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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Saturday, May 10, 2008 08:42 AM

This is a story of great importance

The story about the generals is one of America's most important stories and lessons. If somehow, the American media was fundamentally altered to allow such a story to be told, then I think Americans would be able to sleep better at night knowing the journalists and editors are doing their job. Democracy is fragile, and the only thing keeping it up is a healthy media. How healthy do you think our media is? Take a look at what kind of commercials are running on Ad breaks. Count how many pharmaceutical commercials, car commercials, military commercials there are.

We need this story to be told, or it will happen again.

—John McCall Read John McCall's other letters

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