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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 04:06 PM

    40 years ago, gov't propaganda in one area had unintended consequences --

    I've personally been publicly complaining about government propaganda for nearly twenty years now.. Nobody gives a phuck, I can't even get people to tell me I'm wrong.

    It's like screaming into an anechoic chamber, nothing comes back.

    -- Aycharaych Saturday, May 10, 2008 02:02 PM

    During the 1960s, teens learned:

    1. "The gov't is lying to us about marijuana." [Correct.]

    then jumped to this conclusion --

    2. "Therefore, the gov't is lying to us about all drugs." [WRONG.]

    I see that same oversimplification, that same jumping-to-erroneous conclusion happening today.

    —JNagarya Read JNagarya's other letters

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