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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."

Glenn Greenwald

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Sunday, May 11, 2008 03:22 PM

Respect for the military --

"Respect" for the military is expected, most often as a means to silence or overawe critics --

"My respect for military personnel is almost always in inverse proportion to their rank.

"-- Aycharaych Saturday, May 10, 2008 12:54 PM"

Sounds good. Nicely worded. But bunk.

1. I don't respect those -- in or out of the military -- who don't think for themselves. It is they, after all, who are relied upon to "patriotically" defend and advance the "mission" even when the "mission" is unjustified and worse.

2. I don't respect those -- in or out of the military -- who take advantage of those who don't think for themselves.

—JNagarya Read JNagarya's other letters

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