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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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  • Saturday, May 10, 2008 10:25 PM

    "But I would hate to lose my Internet connection, since it is my only link to humanity."

    Some of what I would say to you I won't post in public. But as I know very well from experience, if the Internet is your sole link to humanity, you require help, and to get to the point where that is not true. (Not to disparage your fear of losing online access; I understand that.)

    This is all fun, and often important, but one needs face-to-face interaction with other humans and a non-cyber circle, however small, of meat-space friends or associates. Please, try to find that.

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