Pentagon stops planting 'analysts' to provide talking points

[babsbunny]

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Pentagon_stops_planting_analysts_to_provide_0428.html

Nick Juliano
Published: Monday April 28, 2008


The Pentagon has stopped feeding its talking points directly to retired generals and officers who then recited the military's arguments to major television networks as their own ostensibly "independent" analysis.

In a blockbuster expose this month, the New York Times revealed the Pentagon's "hidden hand" behind the military talking heads who helped it sell the Iraq war to the American people. Since the story appeared eight days ago it has been all-but-ignored by the major television networks who served as conduits for the Pentagon's message men.

Now the program has been "temporarily suspended" a Pentagon spokesman says, so the Department of Defense "can take a look at some of the concerns."

Chief among those concerns is that the military analysts participated in what amounted to a propaganda campaign aimed at the American people because of their own financial interests.

[annabanana]

1. Gee... THANKS Pentagon. .

That's so nice of you. I'm so sure you mean it.

(How on Earth will you multiply your messages now?, poor things. . )

[Trajan]

2. Dont worry ....

The media has a direct 'red phone' to the American Enterprise Institute, where the likes of Krystol, Krauthammer, Gaffney, Woolsey, Feith, and the rest of the PNAC knuckleheads reside ....

Expect MORE bullshit to come ... not less ...