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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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  • Saturday, May 10, 2008 07:25 AM

    At the same time...

    the Pentagon was limiting access to memorial services for the service men that were being exploited by this propaganda scheme. I found it very striking that after never making a feature out of any particular deaths, the one time the Iranians were supposedly involved, Barbara Starr from CNN did a special report on the 5 soldiers that were casualties of that skirmish, including unique accessed video footage of the remains being returned. Barbara Starr ought to be held just as accountable as any of those analysts for mainlining the Pentagon's Koolaid and trying to elevate the Iranian threat as well.

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