I Was a Propaganda Intern in Iraq

[Postman]

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/21/1348229

Fmr. Lincoln Group Intern Describes Paying Iraqi Press to Plant Pro-American Articles Secretly Written by U.S. Military

[mucho macho]

1. this has occured

in EVERY war since the invention of the printing press. Both sides do it. No news here

[ck4829]

2. That doesn't make it right

[mucho macho]

5. no it doesnt

but we have bigger fish to fry than this one. REMEMBER=== Bush isnt running again

[ck4829]

6. But he is President for a couple more years

[Richard Steele]

3. Do 'both sides' get their propaganda reported as FACT in the US media?

[gaspee]

4. Thanks!

For letting me know what is and isn't news!

[Lefty48197]

9. The GOP is also paying journalists in the USA to print their propoganda

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[Postman]

10. And what, pray tell, were the Iraqi planted stories in the US press?

since "both sides do it"...

Or is it the mythical "liberal media" that meets that qualification in your world....

[zbdent]

7. $100,000,000 in cash for bribing "journalists" to write positive stories

and how could that $$$ be used here in the US?

Oh, just answered my own question - half a bridge in Alaska ...

Never mind ...

[Joanne98]

8. Great story. K&R!