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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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  • Sunday, May 11, 2008 04:32 PM

    american thought patterns

    Greenwald says, 'The public has long been inculcated with the notion that we have a "liberal media" ...'

    It's possible for the public to believe the media is liberally biased and, at the same time, that the media (e.g., military 'experts') have sold out to the right.

    This is the genius of the american way of thinking. One dismisses this at one's own peril.

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