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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."

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  • Sunday, May 11, 2008 01:32 PM

    Journalism and ethics

    N=1 - thanks for that. Additional resources:

    Poynter institute: poynter.org

    Committee for Concerned Journalists:

    http://www.concernedjournalists.org/

    CCJ was formerly a sister organization to the Project for Excellence in Journalism, which runs journalism.org. They split (different directions, as I understand, not personalities or principles), with PEJ joining with Pew to focus on research, CCJ partnering with the (good) Columbia-Missouri journo school to focus more on training.

    Poynter is older than all of them, does a little bit of everything.

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