Pentagon Propaganda

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Bush Propaganda Program: Pentagon Officials Won't Confirm Its Termination

Raw Story | Brad Jacobson | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

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The covert Bush administration program that used retired military analysts to generate favorable wartime news coverage may not have been terminated, R...

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Pentagon Fights To Protect Secret Propaganda Budget

POLITICO | David Rogers | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

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Growing by leaps and bounds, the Pentagon's secretive Information Operations budget keeps tripping over some basic information -- like how much it cos...

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Pentagon Caught, uh, Promoting Its Interests

Eric Dezenhall | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media

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As a rule, the more hated an organization, the more vigilant it has to be with the media because of the near certainty its message will be met with intense, and sometimes deserved, resistance.

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Pentagon "Military Analysts" Didn't Break Propaganda Rule: Investigators

AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon did not violate a federal prohibition on propaganda by using retired military officers to tout the Bush administration...

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Holy Crap: Donald Rumsfeld's Crusade Memos

Disgrasian | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

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They used to put Scripture like this on t-shirts in my Southern Baptist youth group, to get us kids pumped about spending the first week of summer, the first taste of freedom...quietly studying the Bible.

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Pentagon Knowingly Exposed U.S. Soldiers To Toxic Waste: Leaked Memo

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.10.2009 | World

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The Pentagon allegedly endangered U.S. soldiers by implementing and covering-up dangerously toxic waste-incineration practices at Balad Airbase in Ira...

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Pentagon Boosting Spending On PR: AP

AP | CHRIS TOMLINSON | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — As it fights two wars, the Pentagon is steadily and dramatically increasing the money it spends to win what it calls "the human ter...

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Pentagon Boosts Spending On PR Efforts, Raises Propaganda Concerns

AP | CHRIS TOMLINSON | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — As it fights two wars, the Pentagon is steadily and dramatically increasing the money it spends to win what it calls "the human ter...

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A Troubled World Awaits President Obama

Eric Margolis | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics

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Obama's honeymoon will be brief. He faces the extraordinary challenge of dealing with a nation that has plunged into bankruptcy and exported financial crises around the globe.

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Congress Fights Pentagon Propaganda Machine That Sold Iraq War

Media Matters | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

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Washington, DC - Media Matters for America today applauds the inclusion of language in the 2009 Defense Authorization Bill responding to criticism of ...

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Time to Honor Our Fallen Heroes

Sen. Frank Lautenberg | Posted 08.09.2008 | Home

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We have had a long tradition of coming together as a nation to memorialize our fallen heroes--the men and women whose lives were lost on the battlefie...

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The Pentagon and the Banality of Evil

Rick Ayers | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics

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Not only did the Pentagon co-opt the press with "imbedded" journalists, but they censored and controlled the stories, making sure we did not see real images of the war and its cost.

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The War Pundits: Sam Power, McJoan, Danner, Mitchell

Ari Melber | Posted 07.25.2008 | Media

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By relying too heavily on government sources from one party, most pre-Iraq war coverage misstated the threat and drastically underplayed opposition to the war among experts, political elites, and the general public.

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'Message Force Multiplier' Scandal: Networks Assailed For 'Deafening Silence'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics

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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...

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Top Democrat: Investigate "Potentially Illegal" Military Propaganda Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.10.2008 | Politics

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One of Congress' leading progressive figures sent a harsh letter to the Department of Defense on Friday demanding an investigation into reports of an ...

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Why Big Media is Mum about Its Propaganda Habit

Timothy Karr | Posted 05.09.2008 | Media

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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.

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Shameful Days: Why Won't The Media Pursue the Pentagon Propaganda Scandal?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.08.2008 | Media

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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

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Times Let 'Pentagon Pipeline' Story Die On Its Front Page

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics

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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.

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Pentagon Suspends Military Media Analysts Program

AFP | Posted 05.06.2008 | Media

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AFP reports: The Pentagon has suspended a public affairs program that has come under fire for using retired military "media analysts" as surrogates t...

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Military Propaganda Pushed Me Off TV

Jeff Cohen | Posted 05.06.2008 | Media

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The major TV networks were not hoodwinked by a Pentagon propaganda scheme. No government agency forced MSNBC to repeatedly feature the hawkish generals unopposed.

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Since No One's Making Any Noise About the Pentagon Sock Puppets...

Max and the Marginalized | Posted 05.02.2008 | Media

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The networks in question have all but refused to make any noise about this, so we did.

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The Latest Proof that the Karl Rove Playbook Has Become the MSM's Bible

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.29.2008 | 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.

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The Pentagon's Spin Machine

Jon Soltz | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

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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.

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