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Speaking of the military's attempts to control the media, I remember that rather bizarre incident a few months back where Glenn was being harangued by General Petraeus' hot-headed and very disrespectful press secretary, Colonel Boylan. I was shocked at the time that anyone serving in such a highly public role in the active military would engage in such blatantly partisan attacks against a civilian journalist (and I mean "journalist" in the old-fashioned sense of it being an honorable occupation).
It's pretty clear how far the military is willing to carry this concept of "media ops" or whatever they call it. It's completely consistent with the pattern shown with Petraeus and Boylan to grant favorable access only to bloggers and reporters who are willing to "carry water" for them. How much farther would they have to go to be interfering directly in civilian politics?
