Army embeds active-duty PSYOPS soldiers at local TV stations

[TalkingDog]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101001/us_yblog_upshot/army-embeds-active-duty-psyops-soldiers-at-local-tv-stations


The relationship between PSYOPS, Training With Industry, and television news operations has stirred controversy in the past. In 2000, after a Dutch newspaper reported that PSYOPS troops had been placed in CNN's newsroom under the program, CNN discontinued the internships and admitted that they had been a mistake. "It was inappropriate for PSYOPS personnel to be at CNN, they are not here now, and they never again will be at CNN," a spokesperson said at the time.



Anybody here surprised? Anybody? Bueller?.....Ferris Beuller?

[Wilms]

1. NPR had three.

And it was in the late 1990's.

http://www.greaterthings.com/News/Martial_Law/Turner_psyops.htm

[xchrom]

2. Recommend

[gratuitous]

3. Oh, that was way back in 2000

"They are not here now, and they never again will be at CNN." Instead, we'll have them at the local affiliates. You can employ more of them that way, and keep more people busy. It's a jobs program, see? You're not against putting Americans back to work, are you, you bunch of commie socialists?

[Nothing Without Hope]

4. Oh suuurrrre -- never, never again and nowhere else.

It was a mistake all right - they weren't supposed to be outed. But the public response to this will be a big yawn and they can proceed with the program. All part of the Military-Industrial Complex service package. Big Brother watches you and you watch Big Brother.

[Greyhound]

5. No surprise here. K&R

[StandingInLeftField]

6. It's much easier to find goats in the smaller media markets.

[Gaedel]

7. Before everybody gets their panties in a wad........

PsyOps is a very small army career field. The number of officer and enlisted with PsyOps specialties is quite small. PsyOps has two skills, the printing and delivery of propaganda and surrender leaflets and operation of radio and TV stations targeting the enemy to confuse and demoralize his soldiers. Because the career fields are so small, it is uneconomical for the army to maintain a training base. As a result, they place PsyOps personnel with radio and TV stations to learn the arts and technology of broadcasting. They are there to learn how to broadcast, not to propagandize the US listeners.

[Vincardog]

8. Right ya are because the Corporate Owned Media would never propagandize the US listeners. Look at th

terrrrrist

[FiveGoodMen]

9. !

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[bobthedrummer]

10. That may have been basically true prior to the administration of Richard Nixon

but hasn't been true since then, moreover, even though it is illegal to run psychological operations in The United States of America we have been the target population for many years. Btw, there are officially no more Psy-Ops as per SecDef Gates decree this past summer-it is now called Military Information Support Operations/MISO. Not that the rule of law has stopped domestic psyops from any source-especially the "contractors" embedded in MSM. That limitless shield of "national security" protects many criminals in and out of uniform Gaedel as I'm sure you will acknowledge.

Original Document: Making PSYOPS Less Sinister by Marc Ambinder (6-30-10 The Atlantic)
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/06/original-document-making-psyops-less-sinister/58947/

[Gaedel]

12. The two things are completely different

The troop information program and the public information program are always trying to put the military services in the best light (remember the Cold War era "Big Picture" TV series?). That is the government's military domestic "propaganda" arm. All four services run their own programs and the aim s to get more and more public support for the services (and especially their budgets). It is the PR/advertising type of propaganda. The services spend a lot of dough on those programs.


PsyOps are targeted battlefield programs (about 99% of it army) that targets the opposing troops (and the population of the battlefield area) to try and destroy opposing troop morale (like Tokyo Rose and Lord Haw Haw on the other side in WWII). This is done with mobile low power radio stations (and leaflets).

[bobthedrummer]

13. My reference points are different from yours, we're both talking about reality though n/t

[MadHound]

11. Saw a similar article back in '76,

And '86, and '96 and . . .