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Does General McCaffrey's 'analysis' qualify as "war profiteering" or "propaganda"? I'm being quite serious here. His continued work on NBC, absent public disclosure of his financial stakes in the ongoing conflict, smacks a bit of the sort of profiteering Blackwater and Halliburton have been noted for.
I agree with this. Unfortunately, I don't see any reasonable/legal recourse. I've often thought that the best, most rational, response is to simply walk away from these outlets. I really mean that.
BlackCat argues: The National Media MUST be broken up, removed from control of large corporations, or ANY corporations. And the existence of corporations should be re-evaluated. There is something grotesquely rotten there.
This is true, to my mind, but not reasonable in that it simply won't happen. And apart from that, there needs to be a monetary rationale for any news outlet. This is why I favor outlets such as Democracy Now!--they depend on donations from viewers who support their programming. None of this is new to you; I only repeat it for those to whom it is.
