On April 20, the New York Times featured a blockbuster story on "message force multipliers" - the Pentagon's use of "retired" military experts, kept on the government payroll to peddle good news and propaganda about the Iraq war effort. It was a splashy and significant story, the sort that has major impact on the national conversation and gets editors thinking about the possible accolades to come.
One has to wonder, however, if those most closely associated with the journalistic...
]]>