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In reply to the discussion: In Case You Missed This... 'Who’s Paying the Pro-War Pundits?' - Lee Fang/TheNation [View all]DirkGently
(12,151 posts)38. Same game as Iraq. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Thanks to the two-year investigation by the New York Times, we today know that Victoria Clarke, then the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, launched the Pentagon military analyst program in early 2002. These supposedly independent military analysts were in fact a coordinated team of pro-war propagandists, personally recruited by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and acting under Clarke's tutelage and development.
http://www.prwatch.org/news/2008/04/7241/embedding-military-propagandists-news-media
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In Case You Missed This... 'Who’s Paying the Pro-War Pundits?' - Lee Fang/TheNation [View all]
WillyT
Sep 2014
OP
K&R We need some intrepid journalists to uncover the whole reeking propaganda state,
woo me with science
Sep 2014
#1
I know there are such journalists out there but who will print their stories? nm
rhett o rick
Sep 2014
#4
I think if a zillion people post this on Facebook and Twitter, the mainstream press will eventually
Voice for Peace
Sep 2014
#20
and that's just one ship in one shipyard and one minor brother-in-law situation
nashville_brook
Sep 2014
#26
Yeah, I bet you will! I realized long ago that this is no mere website or discussion board.
calimary
Sep 2014
#47
The other thing that's really great about DU is - the writers and thinkers here.
calimary
Sep 2014
#57
some great information coming out about rotten all this is -- hopefully it will make a difference
nashville_brook
Sep 2014
#27