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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."

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  • Sunday, May 11, 2008 08:54 PM

    @Anonymust

    Thanks for the welcome and the appreciative comments!

    Yep, love Harper's. I confess to being something of a leech, though. When my wife and I were abroad (... well, she was a broad, I was ... nevermind), her sister started sending us CARE packages of the stuff we couldn't get: New Yorker, Harper's, Atlantic, TNR, TAP, etc. It was a mutually beneficial arrangement, since she would just throw out the ones that were more than a month old, and we wouldn't have had time to read them when they were new anyway. Anyways, we came back to the US late last year, but we're still getting the CARE packages.

    RE Powell -- I've tried to cut him some slack too, but mostly out of compensation. His mostly-silence now, as things have spiralled even after his departure, speaks volumes to me. The fact that we want to believe the best of him just tells you how bad everyone else around him is ...

    Thanks again!

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