Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand

[bdamomma]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&hp&oref=slogin

why hasn't this been questioned????

There was a crime committed here (among all the crimes that this administration has committed) what they call "illegal propaganda"

[bdamomma]

1. kick

[lonestarnot]

2. Yeah why hasn't it?

K & R

[bdamomma]

3. this is considered a crime.

Thom Hartmann is questioning why there has been no mention of this, but, we all know the answer to that, the media is just another extension of Military Industrial Complex. Those analysts were rallying the American people for the invasion in Iraq, just pure propaganda and they will do it again for Iran.

[Uncle Joe]

4. This is a long read but it's well worth the effort.

If you don't believe the corporate media has the power to brain wash the American People, read the article.

“It was them saying, ‘We need to stick our hands up your back and move your mouth for you,’ ” Robert S. Bevelacqua, a retired Green Beret and former Fox News analyst, said.


“Night and day,” Mr. Allard said, “I felt we’d been hosed.”

To Mr. Bevelacqua, that wasn't your back and to Mr. Allard, it was the American People and the military fighting and dying over there being hosed.


“The worst conflict of interest was no interest.”

This is the best sentence regarding the corporate media's concern about the information (propaganda) being force fed to the American People.

Here's the way I see it, the military "analysts" were kept separate from any form of real network supervision in order to give the networks "plausible deni ability". The media networks didn't see anything because they didn't want to look.

"Torie Clarke, the former public relations executive who oversaw the Pentagon’s dealings with the analysts as assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, had come to her job with distinct ideas about achieving what she called “information dominance.” In a spin-saturated news culture, she argued, opinion is swayed most by voices perceived as authoritative and utterly independent."

One final point regarding the term "analyst" in the dictionary the definition for analyst is "one who analyzes".

A definition for analysis is "in logic, the tracing of things to their source; the resolving of knowledge in to it's original principles".

When you subjugate your expertize and knowledge in any given field to taking dictation and repeating talking points, you're not being an analyst, you're being a parrot or puppet. The American People's best interests are ill served by parrots and puppets, think about that the next time you pin your American Flag on your lapel or not.

Thanks for the thread, alyce douglas

Kicked and recommended.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked for the night crowd. n/t

[Echo In Light]

6. K&R There's been plenty of online articles on it

[bdamomma]

7. pleanty of on line articles about it, but not out there for

human consumption by our corporate repig media.

[Echo In Light]

11. No, they're not going to report on their own institutional crimes and sins

[spanone]

8. Kerry wants it investigated....as well it should be....one more crime for the bu$h* regime

[blm]

10. Keep kicking the Kerry thread on this - many here still haven't seen it.

Maybe someone else can repost it.

[L. Coyote]

9. This is precisely what Eisenhower warned about. Time to alter this reality!!

First, we need to throw the bums out, into jails for crimes, and then alter the political reality of the human community.