Here comes more propoganda from the Pentagon!

[Mari333]

Trying to put a pretty face on Iraq
The $6.3 million project, expected to begin operating in April, is one of the largest military public affairs projects in recent memory, and is intended to allow small media outlets in the United States and elsewhere to bypass what the Pentagon views as an increasingly combative press corps.

U.S. officials have complained that Iraq-based media focuses on catastrophic events like car bombs and soldiers' deaths, while giving short shrift to U.S. rebuilding efforts.



http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=1675781

[grannylib]

1. Oh geez...more examples of the pathetic cowardice of the Bush

misadministration...they just cannot afford to let truth stand, can they??

[DarkPhenyx]

2. This really isn't anything new.

I used to do press releases all the time when I was working as a personal officer. Bits on who got awards, promotions, that sort of thing. We would send them directly to the local papers of the soldiers mentioned.

[tom_paine]

5. Sure it is. This isn't press releases, it's Pravda

A press release is given to an independant media organization or organizations, who excercise editorial control, if the release it fraudulent, misrepresented or otherwise flawed.

THIS is owning the Pravda lock, stock, and barrel. Like the Party-Loyal Right-Wing Sub-Media that enslaves and paralyzes the Bushevik Dupes, this is another case of Bushevik Sub-Media.

As a fellow vet, I must srongly disagree this is "new" in that it's taken to a new, next, more Soviet level.

[DarkPhenyx]

8. It's simply more organized.

The news agencies back home still have the discression to run it or not.

[tom_paine]

9. Right, but all editorial control rests with Pentagon Pravda here

We're going to have to agree to disagree here, DP.

You say they are of the same piece.

I say apples and oranges. You still have yet to tell me how issuing a press release to an independant orgainztion is the same as running the organization that provides the press releases and also has the "discretion" to run it.

You have not answered my point about editorial control, either.

[DarkPhenyx]

10. They don't ahve the discression to run it.

They are giving the pieces directly to small outlets and those outlets have the control to publish, or not publish.


Unless you are talking about Stars and Stripes, and even they have been critical of the war and teh adminsitration.

[G_j]

3. rebuilding efforts?

that should be interesting.
The infrastructure is still a total disaster.

[tom_paine]

4. Shouldn't the New Soviet Union (Imperial Amerika) have a like media

Hell, the media even as it stands now, weakened and parastized, is probably too "free" for the Imperial Family and their Stooges.

[w4rma]

6. They should be spending their resources in Iraq instead of trying to

propagandize Americans to help the Republican political campaign.

[Mari333]

7. yes like FIX THE HUMVEES AND FEED THE TROOPS

[Marius]

11. More ways for the govt. to control what's being put out into

the "liberal" media. Hell, why don't they just change all the media of the past to make it look like they did nothing wrong and that they were always right about everything? (1984 reference)

[Malva Zebrina]

12. Rebuilding efforts

yeah, lucrative contracts to construction corporations to rebuild everything that we mercilessly bombed, and bombed and bombed so that an entire ancient city was practically leveled to the ground.

It was not necessary--but it was necessary to give all the work after the destruction to American companies seeking instant profits.

I watched a couple of military people spout the spin yesterday on CSpan. On young man in uniform was defending Guantanomo and he had the whole thing--the whole spiel, all the talking points down pat. Why you would have thought we conquored and won a war over Hitler again.

another also saying things are just fine and honkey dory in Iraq and the media is portraying things in a negative light.

Let us not or ever forget--no matter how smooth talking, how sophisticated and full of authority these schills for Bush appear, let us never let them get away with smoothing this over and making it appear as if the world is a betterplace now that we had a great leader like Bush--let us never let them forget

We invaded a country illegally , pre-emptively, immorally, unethically--we invaded a country on the lies of a little man who thinks he is indeed a big shot. We invaded and killed ten thousands people on the lies of this little man who was propelled into power not by the people but by shills of his father who sit on the Supreme Court. We invaded a weak, defenseless, country whose stuff we coveted and for the plain purpose of getting those spoils, We are the barbarians at the gates of Babylon --the baby killers. Bush abused his power immediately, and quickly began to use it like a fascist.

Let us not forget our shameful act when we see the spin being sold to us by these military people and Bush apologists.