Sad how we get so happy to see truth on the news broadcasts.

[madfloridian]

It should be something we just expect. We actually get overjoyed here when a station gets down to basic reality now.

I noticed today, we all even posted their spin on the debates. If one favored one candidate over the other, one would gloat. Actually we should be proud of all of them for being so intelligent and well-spoken. (Joe aside...but he is intelligent.)

If our local paper carries the truth about Iraq, or a portion, my husband and I actually are pleased.

I found myself writing Dan Rather to say thank you for the Rumsfeld interview. That should be the norm, not the exception.

We encourage each other to let the reporters know we appreciate the truth they are telling, and that is good. It just should not be necessary.

[Jim Sagle]

1. But it is, for now.

[Octafish]

2. The media work for BUSHCO now.

They worked for the BFEE before Selection 2000. Here's a story from that summer. Funny, last time I GOOGLED it, there seemed to be a LOT more results:

Fort Bragg's propaganda troops at work on the home front

by jon elliston
July 5, 2000

"To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill," the oft-quoted military strategist Sun Tzu wrote more than 2,000 years ago. Today's top propaganda troops, the U.S. Army's 4th Psychological Operations Group at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, still repeat that dictum as they take their trade into the information age.

They may also have taken military persuasion skills into American newsrooms, according to a recent series of reports that began in the European press and sparked a media mini-scandal here in the United States.

The latest uproar over military news management is not about journalists' access to some faraway combat zone, but rather concerns government-media collaboration on the home front. Fort Bragg's Army Special Operations Command, home to the nation's preeminent and only active-duty tactical propaganda unit, is under scrutiny for dispatching soldiers from the 4th Group to work as news interns at Cable News Network (CNN) in Atlanta and National Public Radio (NPR) in Washington, D.C.

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http://www.indyweek.com/durham/2000-07-05/cover.html