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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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  • Monday, May 12, 2008 02:58 AM

    bucky, you waste all the time on abstract "isms"

    What really irritates me is that, as long as I talk about my own feelings, and reassure them of how much I love them really (which I do), I can post away on the comments threads at Haaretz to my heart’s content, but the moment I try to undermine any of their terror propaganda, like today, by drawing their attention to the fact that the Lebanese crisis has been defused to the mortification of the USA and its puppets, they refuse to print the comment.

    Though, actually, every newspaper, even the Independent, has its own little neocolonial hobbyhorse, which no-one is allowed to cast doubt upon.

    I suppose I shouldn’t say things like this, if I want a job, but when world war looms, one stops worrying about feathering one’s own nest, or even about being thrown off Jobseeker’s Benefit.

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