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Contributed by Ken Silverstein
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The New York Times has a terrific piece today called ?Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon?s Hidden Hand, which focused on how a Defense Department program worked with retired military officials and prepped them to serve as ?military analysts.? The Pentagon program ?used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration?s wartime performance, an examination by the New York Times has found?Internal Pentagon documents repeatedly refer to the military analysts as ?message force multipliers? or ?surrogates? who could be counted on to deliver administration ?themes and messages? to millions of Americans ?in the form of their own opinions.? . . . Read more at: |
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