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NY Times - Military Analysts a bunch of war profiteers in thrall to the Pentagon (chad)I am taking a chance that open blog is still open, it looks like it is and this is just burning me up so here goes. Today's NY Times carries an article entitled "Behind Military Analysts, the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand" by Davide Barstow The basic thrust of which is that the Pentagon has a vast disinformation campaign aimed at the American people utilizing network military analysts which they secretly control through a complex web of social and financial ties. Sort of like a latter day Bildeburgers Really they actually say that: To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as “military analysts” whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-Sept. 11 world. They do at least have the decency 3 pages in to admit that the documentation they have obtained doesn't show a quid pro quo. The problem is despite the claim to have over 8000 pages of documentation that shows how the Pentagon is controlling these analysts the times only presents about 40 pages and none of it shows what they claim. Actually in my opinion this article is actually the opposite of fake but accurate it is factual but without accuracy (or context). One example is a meeting between General Pace, Secretary Rumsfeld and a group of analysts following the "General's Revolt". The article presents the meeting in this way: A transcript of that session, never before disclosed, shows a shared determination to marginalize war critics and revive public support for the war. The document is available online. The way I read it is the Pentagon responding to a controversy and asking for and accepting advice on how to respond. I don't really see anything wrong with that. They didn't come out with a point paper hand it to these guys and say "here read this on air". The analysts are presenting their views, but because of this meeting and because the Pentagon was tracking news coverage, then there has to be a major conspiracy. The most delicious part (and I just realized this) The New York Times, which has staunchly defended not revealing the conflict sof interests of it's former Supreme Court reporter complains about a lack of disclosure of potential conflicts of interests by the analysts and the networks that employ them: Some networks publish biographies on their Web sites that describe their analysts’ military backgrounds and, in some cases, give at least limited information about their business ties. But many analysts also said the networks asked few questions about their outside business interests, the nature of their work or the potential for that work to create conflicts of interest. “None of that ever happened,” said Mr. Allard, an NBC analyst until 2006. Sauce for the goose baby
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