Just heard Barbara Starr...say the defense dept. is going monitor the news

[capi888]

The Defense Dept (Rummy) Has hired a private contractor for millions of dollars to MONITOR some of the NEWS organization on their REPORTING of the IRAQ War...She Said CNN is one of them....I heard Wolf chuckle with disbelief...WHAT The Hell..this is outrages...faschim at it work...OMG we are really in trouble!!

[me b zola]

1. We really are in trouble

:(

[Eric J in MN]

2. Our tax dollars used to pressure our media...

..to write positive stories about war.

[Iwasthere]

3. 99 % of us are asleep...

Use your imagination people! This is just the tip of the iceberg... The administration has some very big plans right around the corner and most say; when told of the horrible things they can and will do, "oh, they would never do THAT!" WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. Yeah, like bombing Texas, right?

:eyes:

[Iwasthere]

10. That is one very real possibility...or at the very least a major US event

You can no longer deny that he they would stoop to that level to save their hide. They are getting very close to that kind of desperation. You can imagine the overnight support they would get. The monkeys numbers would escalate dramatically. Repubs would get a bounce too.

[eShirl]

4. We don't want the news doing anything treasonous like reporting the truth.

That would make them traitors and/or enemy combatants.

[SoCalDem]

5. Psy-ops has been in bed with CNN for a decade or more

google CNN psyops ..

[City Lights]

11. ...and yet Wolfie feigns disbelief...

:eyes: Wolfie, your acting skills are on a par with your journalistic skills.

[eleny]

6. And yest there's no oversight on the DOD

[IdaBriggs]

7. Heaven forbid any of the employees actually turn the television

on when they get home at night. That's one job I don't think I could stomach doing, no matter how much you paid me! :eyes:

[napi21]

9. Why the hell are they paying a private contractor to watch the news?

For God sake! Let the damn TV on in everybody's office and tell everyone to keep an eye on it.

As far as I know, ALL campaignsalready monitor TV ad's, stories & the NEWS! I'm also positive there's a "communications room"in the WH that already does this, so WHO is Rummy's buddy that wants to get rich THIS TIME?????

[angstlessk]

12. In the music industry it is called payolla...in the DOD??? Business as

usual?

[Mabus]

13. Same reason they hired one to watch PBS' NOW

because they don't like it when the media turns against them and dares to tell the truth.

Look on the bright side, FOX has been monitored for some time... Remember Cheney's list of demands? He wants all the TVs tuned to Fox whenever he stays somewhere, 'cuz you know they report the news the way the WH wants it reported. :banghead:

[Dem2theMax]

14. Could she have been referring to the new contract between the

US and a company that just got millions to keep monitoring the news coming OUT of Iraq?
(So the * administration can spin it, of course.)

I can't do a search. It was in LBN yesterday or the day before.

[Miss Chybil]

15. I hope he's using his own money and not ours... nt