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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."

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  • Sunday, May 11, 2008 04:15 AM

    two cents

    By your answer it would appear you think I don't. But then you don't seem too intent on enlightening me, so I guess it wouldn't be worth my asking.

    Go and read some of my previous letters, every regular here knows what I'm talking about and they are all extremely tired of hearing about it.. To the point that I've been told to shut up and/or go away many times.

    But it's beyond me how you think this attitude will help your feeling that you are in an anechoic box.

    There are some cultural artifacts that many people will intellectually disagree with but which they accept without question emotionally.

    If you push too hard against these cultural artifacts, even though people may agree with you intellectually the emotions start to run high against you because you violate their emotional acceptance.

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