Rummy’s “Message Force Multipliers” & you thought this admin had done no post Iraq invasion planning

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Rummy’s “Message Force Multipliers”
By Liz Cox Barrett
Mon 21 Apr 2008 08:19 AM
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And you thought this administration had done no post-Iraq-invasion planning?

These records reveal a symbiotic relationship where the usual dividing lines between government and journalism have been obliterated.


About those “military analysts” you’ve grown accustomed to seeing on cable and network TV, waxing authoritative on all things post-9/11:

Pentagon information apparatus…has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found…

The effort, which began with the buildup to the Iraq war and continues to this day, has sought to exploit ideological and military allegiances, and also a powerful financial dynamic: Most of the analysts have ties to military contractors vested in the very war policies they are asked to assess on air…

more: http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/rummys_message_force_multiplie.php