The coverage available lately on The Center for Media and Democracy, specifically on prwatch.org has been rocking the world of journalism in its comprehensive exposure and summation of the extent of Pentagon Propoganda in a complicit newsmedia. This issue is of huge import to our university as it reveals an intentional breach of journalistic integrity on behalf of the U.S. military's 'Pentagon military analyst program', which directly embedded (and continues to embed) hired military analysts into network news stations without acknowledging this fact to viewers. Now, Network Media is maintaining it's compliance in delaying or refusing to report these findings, which are on the level of or grander than the famous Pentagon Papers of times past.
You can view a brief and halted debate from PBS's newshour below (you can practically see CPB execs shaking in their boots in the background) between CMD reporters and an ABC exec.:
-----a good article on PRwatch.org's website:
Pentagon, TV Networks Fear Debating Iraq Propaganda Scandal - Stauber vs. Zelnick on NewsHour
-----an on alternet (written by CMD writers)
Pentagon Propaganda: So Much Worse Than We Thought
-----also, lily posted this article from the NYtimes
Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand
We gotta get the word out on campus!! This would make a great topic for a discussion next fall in conjunction with a Journalism student group. We could bring folks from CMD and possibly some journalists who wish to speak out about this. A great place to do it, eh?
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