How Pentagon organized 75+ ex-military 'analysts' to propagandize media
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7366/
Informant: jensenmk
From ufpj-news
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Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand
David Barstow, reporting for The New York Times, writes, "In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantanamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded 'the gulag of our times' by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse from United Nations human rights experts and calls were mounting for its closure. The administration's communications experts responded swiftly. Early one Friday morning, they put a group of retired military officers on one of the jets normally used by Vice President Dick Cheney and flew them to Cuba for a carefully orchestrated tour of Guantanamo... Records and interviews show how the Bush administration has used its control over access and information in an effort to transform the analysts into a kind of media Trojan horse - an instrument intended to shape terrorism coverage from inside the major TV and radio networks."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042008Z.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention+center
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=gulag
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
Informant: jensenmk
From ufpj-news
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Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand
David Barstow, reporting for The New York Times, writes, "In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantanamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded 'the gulag of our times' by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse from United Nations human rights experts and calls were mounting for its closure. The administration's communications experts responded swiftly. Early one Friday morning, they put a group of retired military officers on one of the jets normally used by Vice President Dick Cheney and flew them to Cuba for a carefully orchestrated tour of Guantanamo... Records and interviews show how the Bush administration has used its control over access and information in an effort to transform the analysts into a kind of media Trojan horse - an instrument intended to shape terrorism coverage from inside the major TV and radio networks."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042008Z.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention+center
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=gulag
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
rudkla - 20. Apr, 14:43
