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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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  • Saturday, May 10, 2008 09:07 AM

    The coup of 2000

    It seems like there was a quiet, bloodless coup in 2000 by corporate/theocratic fascists.

    * Wars without end

    * Elections fixed

    * Habeas corpus voided

    * Congress made irrelevant/impotent

    * Control of media

    * Torture

    * Warrantless survellance/wiretapping

    The corporate media is only too happy to be a megaphone/stenographer for the government. All that "informed electorate" stuff is unnecessary in a fascist dictatorship -- and the money is damned good.

    —JackHughes Read JackHughes's other letters

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