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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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  • Sunday, May 11, 2008 05:35 PM

    It's none of my business --

    shooter242 --

    Out of curiousity

    Who are the salonistas rooting for in Lebanon? Hezbollah?

    -- shooter242 Sunday, May 11, 2008 07:10 AM

    Why do you think it's your business?

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