DoD to consolidate all media activities

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DoD to consolidate all media activities
By William H. McMichael - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Jan 3, 2008 18:15:05 EST

The Defense Department, recently criticized by a government watchdog group for belaboring federal base closures and consolidations mandated in 2005, began the New Year by fulfilling one of those mandates: consolidation of all Defense Department media activities.

Beginning Oct. 1, the new Defense Media Activity will oversee all the department’s public information activities such as the Stars and Stripes newspaper, the American Forces Radio and Television Service and the Hometown News Program.

The new organization, to be based at Fort Meade, Md., just down the road from the Defense Information School, will be directed by a Senior Executive Service careerist or flag or general officer to be named.

The consolidation requirement was part of the 2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission’s final report, which called for the creation of an entity to oversee the individual services’ media products, such as the Army’s Soldiers magazine.

It also said the American Forces Information Service, which oversees Defense Department-level media activities, should “co-locate” with the new DMA.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/01/military_defensemediaactivity_080103w/



uhc comment: Now that Faux Noise has lost traction amongst the sheeple, the Department of Death sets up its very own propaganda machine.