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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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  • Monday, May 12, 2008 02:33 PM

    If I was a teenage boy

    That was one good I'd want to be victimized by.

    Even as an old man, I could dig it. But then they might lead me away in handcuffs. No victimless crimes, indeed. Some one needs an attitude adjustment.

    —L.W.M. Read L.W.M.'s other letters

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