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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 04:39 PM

    @JNagarya

    Totally agree about Powell. I was going to cite some similar thoughts and now I don't have to. Well maybe just one. In addition to politics, Powell rose to be chairman of the JCS because people like me fought for him to have a level playing field to perform on. Then he discriminates against homosexuals by pushing the hypocritical "don't ask, don't tell." When I was with US Central Command, almost all senior

    Army officers and generals told me how much disgust they had for Powell using politics to rise in the Army instead of paying his dues.

    —Retired Military Patriot Read Retired Military Patriot's other letters

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