US News Media's Latest Disgrace

[babsbunny]

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/042108.html

By Robert Parry
April 21, 2008


After prying loose 8,000 pages of Pentagon documents, the New York Times has proven what should have been obvious years ago: the Bush administration manipulated public opinion on the Iraq War, in part, by funneling propaganda through former senior military officers who served as expert analysts on TV news shows.


In 2002-03, these military analysts were ubiquitous on TV justifying the Iraq invasion, and most have remained supportive of the war in the five years since. The Times investigation showed that the analysts were being briefed by the Pentagon on what to say and had undisclosed conflicts of interest via military contracts.

Retired Green Beret Robert S. Bevelacqua, a former Fox News analyst, said the Pentagon treated the retired military officers as puppets: “It was them saying, ‘we need to stick our hands up your back and move your mouth for you.’”

[KharmaTrain]

1. CNN Tried To Snow This Over...

Wolfie played like Sgt. Schultz...claiming that CNN wasn't told of these conflicts. Also the report, done by Whorie Kurtz, made it seem just fine if a "military expert" gets a briefing from the Pentagon and has other conflicts and doesn't disclose it as "it had little effect on the coverage". BULLSHIT!!!

I was amazed Wolfie touched this story in the first place, but after seeing the snowjob than ensued it was to innoculate this poor excuse for a news channel and distort the story. Typical...and I'll bet Rummy approved of this report, too.

[OKthatsIT]

2. Americans need to take 'CIA 101' - 1st class, Project Mockingbird

come on...why do we pretend it isn't so when we are spoonfed psyops at every juncture?