Propaganda Platoon Mobilizing To Produce Fluff About War

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Guard unit deployed for public affairs duties

From Staff Reports

01/12/06, 2:55 am
RAPID CITY - Soldiers from the 129th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment will mobilize in mid-April for Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.

The South Dakota Army National Guard unit will report to Fort McCoy, Wis., and train there several months. It will work on public affairs for U.S. Central Command and any of its 26 areas of responsibility around the world, including Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of operation.

http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060112/NEWS/601120316/1001



"The 20-member unit is made up of writers, photographers and radio and television reporters."

http://www.kevn.com/cgi-bin/archived.pl?1048395867

[AuntiBush]

1. One Can Only Hope They'll Be Safe and Tell the Truth.

Then again, this could be a forewarning of things to come. March scares the crap out of me. Isn't that when the Euro deal goes through (Iran/China)?

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2. It's likely the outgrowth of the Pentagon's new drive to control the news

coming from the theaters of war.

Pentagon to set new communications policy: official

By Charles Aldinger
Reuters
Wednesday, January 11, 2006; 1:29 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/11/AR2006011101307.html?nav=rss_nation

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon, stung by criticism over secret U.S. military payments to Iraqi newspapers to print pro-American articles, is moving to develop a "strategic communications" plan, a senior defense official said on Wednesday.

>>>>The defense official said that developing clear guidance for communicating with the public at home and abroad is a key issue that will be taken up this year as a result of top-level debate in the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review, or QDR.

"There are a number of road maps that have been identified to be developed over the next year. One of them happens to be on strategic communications," the official, who asked not to be identified, told reporters of the QDR report, which will be sent to the White House and Congress in February.

"It basically gives you a direction in which to then develop your policies, your directives, your instructions, your doctrine," the official said.


The Pentagons says, if we can't hire shills we'll use our own.

[FreedomAngel82]

3. Operation Mockingbird part two

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4. kick

[bobthedrummer]

5. It's called "perception management"

It includes PSYOPS, cover and deception, and a whole lot more.

Here's an informative thread for readers seeking background on the use of propaganda by the administration of George W. Bush.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x71919