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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 09:39 PM

    @QS

    I would. Goddamned butterflies.

    They really need to learn their place.

    -- quickstrategy

    A little ether and a few pins and they earn their place in that glass covered case!

    —L.W.M. Read L.W.M.'s other letters

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