Pentagon vs. the press

[Monkeyman]

The Pentagon is taking bids for a two-year,$20 million contarct to read newspapers and watch TV news and rate daily coverage of the war in Iraq. The "tone," "key themes" and messages " of coverage in U.S. and the Arab world are to be evaluated as positive or neutral.

This project has the aroma of a public-relations boondoggle.

Pentagon brass are frustrated that the media do not always report the war's daily events in positive terms. "They want (war news) to be recieved by audiences as it is tranmitted" by the military,as one public relations expert explained to the Washington Post."but they don't like how it turns out ."That happens. President Abraham Lincoln was notoriously frustrated and angered by coverage of the Civil War,coverage by this newpaper.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0609090165sep09,1,6879962.story?coll=chi-opinionfront-hed

This sound to me guys they don't want no more oversight at all

[nygiant3]

1. 1984

Hey, if any of you guys have ever read 1984 this is exactly
one of the things that happens, the goverenment censors the
news that would make them look bad and this can't be the one
and only censoring thing going around right now because if it
were there would be too much news that the average american
can't and shouldn't handle.

[Monkeyman]

2. News reports from Iraq is the only oversight we have

If it was up to DOD it just be good news. Those of us with Family in Iraq want the truth not spin

[rock]

3. The truth IS liberally biased

Stephen Colbert didn't know how right he was.