Pentagon sites: Journalism or propaganda? (Wolfowitz on the internet- WNN)

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I hope the hackers have fun with these.

Pentagon sites: Journalism or propaganda?
From Barbara Starr and Larry Shaughnessy
CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Department of Defense plans to add more sites on the Internet to provide information to a global audience (snip).

The Defense Department runs two Web sites overseas, one aimed at people in the Balkan region in Europe, the other for the Maghreb area of North Africa.

(snip)

Information warfare

The sites are run by U.S. military troops trained in "information warfare," a specialty that can include battlefield deception.

Pentagon officials say the goal is to counter "misinformation" about the United States in overseas media.

At first glance, the Web pages appear to be independent news sites. To find out who is actually behind the content, a visitor would have to click on a small link -- at the bottom of the page -- to a disclaimer, which says, in part, that the site is "sponsored by" the U.S. Department of Defense.

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The Pentagon maintains that the information on the sites is true and accurate. But in a recent memo, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz insisted that the Web site contractor should only hire journalists who "will not reflect discredit on the U.S. government."

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http://edition.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/04/web.us/index.html

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1. Americanus Televisanus

will consume this info as that will be the target audience. so much of the int'l psyops is for US consumption as it cycles through the US Wurlitzer, though of course there will be the usual glossy portrayal of america the fee, oh i forgot an 'r', a show that even the 'uncivilized' have caught on to. the US PR is so tinny and these burston-marsteller fellers think they are so clever. candy and whiskey all 'round.


be well my friend

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2. Oh Poe congratulations.

In your short time here, you made public enemy number one at a vile conservative site where they can't stand all the free talk over here :thumbsup:

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3. If you have any choice clips

send 'em over. does this put me in fine company with the likes of your own unable to stand the massive lies and corruption self.
what sight?

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4. You have mail

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