Local news stations training psychological ops soldiers: report

[babsbunny]

Local news stations training psychological ops soldiers: report

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/news-stations-training-psyops-soldiers/

By Daniel Tencer
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010 -- 8:08 pm

Two CBS affiliates have been helping train US Army psychological operations soldiers, says an investigative report at Yahoo! News.

According to documents obtained by John Cook through a freedom of information request, WRAL in Raleigh, North Carolina, and WTOC in Savannah, Georgia, have both hosted psyops soldiers as part of the Army's Training With Industry program.

The soldiers "used WRAL and WTOC to learn broadcasting and communications expertise that they could apply in their mission, as the Army describes it, of 'influenc the emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign audiences,'" the report states. The arrangement reaches back at least to 2001.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

1. "ultimately the behavior of foreign audiences"

Or of local audiences given whatever the needs may be.

[elehhhhna]

2. yeah cuz local news does lots of stories on international news items

lol

[rucky]

3. Are there any questions?

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. the Army's Training With Industry program????????????

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. What a great idea!

Where can I signup? :puke:

The parallels are mounting in both scope and frequency...

[EFerrari]

6. Kick