Among the documents the New York Times pried loose from the Pentagon for their story on TV military analysts are the records from a December 12, 2006 meeting some of the analysts had with Donald Rumsfeld.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics
An ongoing exploration of the documents related to the Pentagon's "message force multipliers" program has unearthed a clip of former Defense Secretary...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics
Michael Calderone and Avi Zenilman run down the ongoing effort to get network and cable news outlets to come clean on their use of "message force mult...
John Kerry | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
Now that the Pentagon has announced this program has been suspended, what steps are being taken to make sure it never happens again?
Huff TV | Posted 05.01.2008 | Media
Timothy Karr | Posted 05.01.2008 | Media
The Bush administration's propaganda wouldn't have spread far if it weren't for its cozy relationship with media outlets like Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.30.2008 | Media
The near-complete blackout on the Pentagon propaganda story, self-imposed by the culpable news organizations, is a despicable abdication of their role as a constitutionally protected check on our government. Read More Probing a Political Paradox: Why the Discredited Right Still Sets the Agenda and Dominates the Debate How is it that the 28 percent of the population that continues to support George W. Bush no matter how many bodies pile up in Iraq, how many jobs disappear overseas, or how high gas prices get, continues to dominate our politics? Read More Watch Arianna On: Good Morning America, 20/20, Charlie Rose, Real Time, The Situation Room, AC 360, CNN's Election Center, and MobLogic TV
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics
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.
Josh Silver | Posted 04.28.2008 | Media
Fox is still airing -- without disclosure -- two of the exposed pundits, Robert H. Scales and Thomas McInerney. See them for yourself.
AFP | Posted 04.28.2008 | Media
AFP reports: The Pentagon has suspended a public affairs program that has come under fire for using retired military "media analysts" as surrogates t...
Jeff Cohen | Posted 04.28.2008 | Media
The major TV networks were not hoodwinked by a Pentagon propaganda scheme. No government agency forced MSNBC to repeatedly feature the hawkish generals unopposed.
Chuck Spinney | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics
The domestic psyops operation is a perverted vision of how to go about building up and sustaining the internal national political cohesion of a nation at war.
Rep. Ike Skelton | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics
It hurts me to my core to think that there are retired officers who have decided to cash in and essentially prostitute themselves on the basis of their previous positions within the Department of Defense.
Max and the Marginalized | Posted 04.24.2008 | Media
The networks in question have all but refused to make any noise about this, so we did.
Robert Naiman | Posted 04.23.2008 | Media
News media have a responsibility to warn their audience when a commentator has an economic interest in the issue they discuss.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.21.2008 | Media
The mainstream media seems intent on confirming that it has so internalized the Right's framing and messages they have now become part of its DNA. The first of the latest round of exhibits proving this was offered into evidence during last week's ABC debate. This was followed by the New York Times' epic revelation of the unseemly complicity between the Pentagon and the media in delivering the Bush administration's talking points on Iraq via "a kind of Trojan media horse" -- Pentagon-approved, prepped, and financially-enriched "military analysts" dutifully parroting the Bush party line, with nary a raised eyebrow from the TV stations and newspapers offering these highly-decorated sock puppets their prestigious platforms. And it's not just the media. Witness Hillary Clinton repeating the Rove-promoted lie that MoveOn was against intervention in Afghanistan after 9/11.
Jon Soltz | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics
As far as too many networks are concerned, retired senior officials with no experience in the current conflicts are more credible than the troops who actually fought in the wars.
Ari Melber | Posted 04.21.2008 | Media
While the Times exposed a sophisticated propaganda campaign, the flip-side is harder to document -- but antiwar perspectives are routinely marginalized or scrubbed from televised debate.
Gareth Porter | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics
This story should bring overwhelming public pressure for the immediate termination of any "military analyst" who has been compromised by links with the Pentagon and/or its business allies.
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Jonathan Schwarz | Posted 05.19.2008 | Media