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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 12:24 PM

    shooter's so eager to make a point

    (not to mention, change the subject..) that he can't even be bothered to read....

    We expect man-made global warming to be superimposed on those natural variations; and this kind of research is important to make sure we don't get distracted from the longer term changes that will happen in the climate (as a result of greenhouse gas emissions)."

    Of course anyone who's too stupid to get beyond binary thinking is incapable of even knowing what this paragraph means.

    Warmimg or cooling? Anything beyond that is just confusion.

    Thanks for the insight into the neanderthal brain there....

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