I didn’t even know about this!
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008Pentagon Suspends Propaganda Program
Following an exposé in the New York Times that revealed that the Pentagon had successfully planted military analysts on all of the major broadcast networks and cable news networks to support its Iraq war policies, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday that the program would be undergoing an internal review and would be temporarily suspended. Meanwhile, several political blogs have pointed out that the propaganda program, which was prominently featured on the front page of the Sunday Times on April 20, was virtually ignored by the broadcast networks (who were criticized for failing to mention the ties to the Pentagon of their military experts) and that the Times itself, which acknowledged that it ran Op-Ed articles by the retired military figures who had received “talking points” from Pentagon public affairs officers, did little follow-up. Wrote Jason Linkins in the Huffington Post: “The aftermath of the story, for the Times, has been one of scant follow-up, lost scoops, and poor comparison when set alongside similar journalistic efforts.”
From Studio Briefing.
