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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 09:42 AM

    Sharter28%'s abject eedjitcy. It needs to click the linky thingy

    For any other RWA eedjits who might be inclined to regurgitate the "what did you expect from military analysts" talking point, HERE

    http://www.prwatch.org/node/7261

    is where the link in Glenn's post leads.

    It's a brief and simple explanation of the fact that, even if certain asshats don't have any problem w/ being propogandized, it is in fact, patently ILLEGAL.

    But, for some, obviously, IOKIYAR (Administration).

    —bamage Read bamage's other letters

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