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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 04:52 AM

    well, anyway, my good celery,

    after I sent them a really stinking email direct to the editorial desk, Haaretz finally printed my comment, to the effect that the Lebanese army, and the Lebanese public in general, perceive Hezbollah and its rockets as defensive, not offensive. It makes the rest of the thread look pretty silly, too - almost everything else on it is basically warmongering racist hate speech, saying that the only way to teach good sense to arabs is to carpet bomb them, more or less.

    my remark about wanting a job was really more in the context of a thread at the one of the (London) Independent newspaper's blogs, where I also reported this episode.

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