[Marxism] Pentagon shills on TV "news"

["Joaquin Bustelo" <jbustelo@xxxxxxxxx>]

NY Times: Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand

[excerpt]

To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented
tens of thousands of times on television and radio as "military analysts"
whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered
judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-Sept. 11 world. 

Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon
information apparatus that 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. 

Those business relationships are hardly ever disclosed to the viewers, and
sometimes not even to the networks themselves.

[URL] <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html>


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