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Saturday, May 10, 2008 12:00 AM

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 11:14 AM

@ quickstrategy

I was wondering what the origin of the assertion that a Barr candidacy would pull voters from McCain is, but it's impossible to tell just from googling around. I suspect that the assertion is a ploy by one of McCain's media strategists, but this would be extremely difficult to prove. The 'you' I referred to is those of you who allow themselves to be misled by it. The author of the ploy, ex hypothesi, wouldn't believe it for a minute, and as for the AP writer and all the other hack journos who repeat it, I think they are trained (or train themselves) not to think about whether any story they handle is true or not, but only about whether it's attractive as a story, i.e. an attention grabber. That's what they're paid to do, isn't it.

—Rowan Berkeley Read Rowan Berkeley's other letters

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