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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 07:49 AM

    Take two aspirin and never call us again, shooter242.

    Perhaps you folks should consider the real lesson here. One gets one's message out in better fashion when positive and attractive to an audience, as opposed to appearing rude, negative, and condescending.

    And if that message is neither accurate nor beneficial to the public? At what point does the DoD cease to have a moral duty to serve the public interest rather than the partisan goals of the current Administration?

    Don't worry about answering. We all know you can't.

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