Pentagon Propaganda Do***ents Go Online - But Will the Media Ever Re****t on
Them?
By John Stauber
Created May 8 2008 - 8:53am
Eight thousand pages of do***ents related to the Pentagon's illegal
propaganda campaign, known as the Pentagon military analyst program, are
now
online for the world to see, although in a format that makes it impossible
to easily search them and therefore difficult to read and dissect. This
trove includes the do***ents pried out of the Pentagon by David Barstow
and
used as the basis for his stunning investigation that appeared in the New
York Times on April 20, 2008.
The Pentagon program, which clearly violated US law against covert
government propaganda, embedded more than 75 retired military officers --
most of them with financial ties to war contractors -- into the TV
networks
as "message surrogates" for the Bush Administration. To date, every major
commercial TV network has failed to re****t this story, covering up their
complicity and keeping the existence of this scandal from their audiences.
News of the Pentagon's online posting of the do***ents came from Joe
Trento
of the National Security News Service, who notes that NSNS provided the
New
York Times "limited information about a military office early in the
re****ting process."
Here is the official Pentagon website with the 8,000 pages of do***ents,
the
most interesting and revealing of them previously secret and only
available
to the Pentagon and the New York Times:
http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/milanalysts/
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More than two weeks after the New York Times re****ted on the Penatgon's
military analyst program to sell controversial policies such as the
invasion
of Iraq, the broadcast television news outlets implicated in the program
are
hoping to tough out the scandal by refusing to re****t it. Recently Media
Matters of America (MMA) re****ted that, according to a search of the Nexis
database, "the three major broadcast networks -- ABC, CBS, and NBC -- have
still not mentioned the re****t at all."
The Pew Excellence in Journalism project has a chart showing that " there
was virtually no mainstream media follow up to The Times' expose" with the
only national TV coverage being the introduction segment and a live debate
(featuring me) on the PBS NewsHour.
Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro and three dozen colleagues have sent a
letter
to the Department of Defense Inspector General calling for an
investigation
of this "propaganda campaign aimed at deliberately misleading the American
public."
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