Pentagon to broadcast to millions of U.S. homes

[sarahlee]

Pentagon to broadcast the Pentagon Channel

ednesday 16th February, 2005
Big News Network.com Wednesday 9th February, 2005

Quote:
The U.S. military is to beam its own news coverage to millions of Americans.

Moving on from its phase of embedding journalists, or as some would say, 'a policy of restricting and controlling the flow of information,' the Pentagon will now produce and disseminate the news itself. It will be beamed to the public at no charge. The service will emanate from what is known as the Pentagon Channel, an internal public relations television unit within the Department of Defense. It was set up nine months ago.

The government-run TV service will be channeled to the public through EchoStar Communication's Dish Network which will offer the Pentagon Channel to its more than 11 million viewers on a no-cost basis. Programming will appear on the network's public interest channels and will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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[cmf]

1. How is this breaking news?

Fox News is already beamed to millions of homes.

All kidding aside, it's scary.

[Moderator]

2. locking

Not Latest Breaking News, here is the archived thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1223030

[NYC Liberal]

3. Will it be like the old Iraqi State TV?

I caught it once on C-SPAN.

"Our great and glorious President of the Republic of Iraq, Saddam Hussein has announced ..."

Of course, now it'll be: "Our great and glorious President of the United States, George Bush, has announced ..."