Military analysts named in Times Report appeared or were quoted more than 4,500 times on broadcast nets, cables, NPR
By John Amato Tuesday May 13, 2008 11:00am
Media Matters did massive research into the Military Analysts scandal since the networks won't even have a conversation about it and found out that:
A New York Times article detailed the connection between numerous media military analysts and the Pentagon and defense industries, reporting that "the Bush administration has used its control over access and information in an effort to transform" media military analysts "into a kind of media Trojan horse -- an instrument intended to shape terrorism coverage from inside the major TV and radio networks." A Media Matters review found that since January 1, 2002, the analysts named in the Times article -- many identified as having ties to the defense industry -- collectively appeared or were quoted as experts more than 4,500 times on ABC, ABC News Now, CBS, CBS Radio Network, NBC, CNN, CNN Headline News, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, and NPR....read on
We knew they were all over the airwaves, but not to this degree. Di Rita was only trying to bring balance to the news coverage anyway. Glenn Greenwald wonders if Karl Rove was part of this program. What do you think?
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The "liberal media" said they will get on this story immediately after they report on the results of the latest Dancing with the Stars competition.
There should be a picture of Goebbels hanging in every newsroom. I mean, if there isn't already.
Its all part of the spin cycle. Are people getting it yet? Probably not. Oh well, thats what you get when you turn on the television for your news and entertainment.
If the propaganda smells like shit and this does, then we know 'trudblossum' was involved.
And by the way don't congress and the senate know that when someone refuses to be sworn in there's only one reason and that is so they can LIE!!!!!!!
sounds like shill docs for pharmaceutical industry
Jon Stewart should have brought this up the other night when he had Douglas Feith as a guest. The story would have gotten major traction.
The propaganda machine was warming up in 2000 and kicked into full overdrive on Sept 11, 2001.
In case no one noticed.
These tubes that make up our internets sure are making it tough for the media to bury inconvenient stories.
Yes but Clinton got a blowjob.
Worry not, HRC would be strong on national security.
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
WOW, what a coincidence !
They were preparing propaganda (just in case) and BOOM!, a convenient "Pearl Harbor" falls right in their lap !!
You just cannot plan and coordinate something like this.
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
They also tried with the Clinton Monica fiasco but it didn't quite go over most Americans didn't want the Wing Nuts grinding the country to a halt and Bill said, "I'm not going to quit" anyway. And he still left office with the highest approval rating of any President in U.S. History.
"It's the Economy Stupid!"
"It's the Economy Stupid!"
"It's the Economy Stupid!"
"It's the Economy Stupid!"
"It's the Economy Stupid!"
"It's the Economy Stupid!"
"It's the Economy Stupid!"
"It's the Economy Stupid!"
Damn right it was
I think people are turning Rove into Kaiser Sose.
Think about it...
Even to THIS DAY, a president who was shamed by a blowjob incident in the WH, STILL has higher approval ratings than a 'War President'
Put that in your pipe and smoke it for a while.
National Propaganda Radio has lost a lot of credibility with me, I wont ever take their word for it after something like this.
I've noticed that since Karl Rove stepped down, there haven't been the massive coordinated attacks against random "everyday" liberals like Graham Frost.
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, author of the Gulag Archipelago (to cite one), in a BBC interview in 1975, when asked: 'how many political prisoners are there in the Soviet Union', replied: '250 million'.
We have a different and usually much more subtle approach to internal political prisoners.
Our Country in a Nutshell:
1. Insanely corrupt and criminal government = Bad.
2. Government so INCOMPETENT that they get caught for just about everything = Worse.
3. They still get away with everything = Hopeless.
YouCantHandleDaTruth @ 15:
I can't believe NPR these days. It should be renamed Corporate Public Radio.
Alice we're all African @ 17:
We put them in front of televisions and turn them into mindless consumer bots.
We now have the MMIC -- Media Miltary Industrial Complex
FilthyHarry @ 18:
"Go to work, send your kids to school, follow fashion, act normal, walk on the pavement, watch T.V. , save for your old age, obey the law ; Repeat after me ... I am free."
-Graffiti-
Dr. Acula @ 21:
aka The Pentagon
A Media Matters review found that since January 1, 2002, the analysts named in the Times article — many identified as having ties to the defense industry — collectively appeared or were quoted as experts more than 4,500 times on ABC, ABC News Now, CBS, CBS Radio Network, NBC, CNN, CNN Headline News, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, and NPR
and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
sadly, the msm carries on as if nothing has happened.
I haven't trusted the media since they framed Oliver North as Mr. Patriot. This doesn't surprise me in the least. Look at the way these clowns in the media have invented the Global Warming Controversy. All credible scientist on Earth are in agreement about Global Warming, yet a few corporate hacks and scientific whack-jobs get more air time than the entire scientific community.
It's bloody time for hearings. Drag the network execs before an investigation committee. Drag Rumsfeld, Feith, Cheney, Powell, Bush...the whole lot of them. Timmeh, Tweety, Katie, all of them. Bring on the klieg lights. There needs to be some accountability. Heads need to roll.
Not only is it clear that Rove has been involved in countless dirty tricks in the past but is without a doubt still working his shitty brain in full on overtime to influence politics in this country. Now, with his ability to write opinion articles in the WSJ and appear on WSJ/FOX TV as a fair and balanced propagandist, Rove is even a bigger monster. We must hope the day will come when his influence and expertise will come to an end, only then will the wingnuts make him a martyr and then perhaps he will make a comeback like Ollie North. Rove must have had knowledge and input on this program just like Greenwald and others have shown, this is the Rovian playbook all the way!
YouCantHandleDaTruth @ 15:
Continuing to use Cokie Roberts as a "senior political analyst" finally did me in a couple years ago.
FilthyHarry @ 18:
4. our govt functions at the direction of our corporate overlords
I love that when I visit C&L I get information like this which I then send to my very Republican family.
BTW, my very Republican family are voting for Obama... Well, most of them, there's still a few dim ones left.
And that is how the Republicans won the 2004 Presidential election... they played up the fear card... and their message was carried by these military guys... a real manipulation of the public.... Kerry never had a chance...
Eisenhower originally called it the Military Industrial Congressional Complex.
Obviously this should now be amended to the Military Industrial Media Complex.
Or maybe the Military Industrial Legislative Foxnews Complex (MILF, for short).
C&L Site people ... Please post some links in here that the readers can follow to write letters to the different Media outlets. You know, one of those that lets you then send off the invitation to write to all the people you send it to. You guys have the power because of the amount of people who visit this site daily. A flood of Emails to the NewsCorps letting them know that we will be writing to their Sponsor-bas could do a lot in the way of changing the way they are NOT covering.
Krisken @ 13:
Really? I think a guy who had no moral compunction about being one of Segretti's "Rat F*ckers" during Watergate, (which, lest you forget, was the biggest attempt to overthrow the Constitution this country had seen before Rove got an office in the White House), is a guy capable of just about anything if he has the unlimited wealth and power of the Federal Government at his disposal:
C'mon, the only real question is, what wouldn't Rove do for his liege lord?
Blue Lensman @ 28:
Yeah, it all changed when Bush, (or Cheney, or Rove), decided NPR had too much of a liberal bias and put one of their unqualified, fact-averse, political hacks in charge of NPR, and another one, Colin Powell's son, in charge of the FCC.
They are like roaches, for every one that gets caught in the sunlight, there are hundreds more infiltrating everywhere, spreading their filth.
brithumeistheantichrist @ 6:
Stewart should have had some hand sanatizer on his desk to use after shaking hands with DF. We've watched the show for years, but are debating WTF he's doing with some of these "guests." On the one hand, I like to see the lying liars lie, looking for every tell...........it's ugly stuff. On the other hand, it's just uncomfortable seeing such vacant shells trying to pass as human.
In regard to rove...............let's hold a national pig roast.
Phillip @ 31:
I knew Kerry was a lost cause when I saw Republicans at their convention gleefully wearing those "Purple Heart" bandaids, (and my, how quickly those suddenly appeared), which all those war-mongering non-vets were wearing to mock injured veterans.
That's when I truly understood the unfathomable depth to which Republicans would willingly sink, just to keep getting their way.
And I knew then that this is not about America for the Republicans, and it sure ain't about the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. It is only about winning, at all costs.
As much as I prefer Obama over Hillary, I wonder if she isn't the only one running who truly gets this. I wonder if Obama understands what he's up against, cause they really haven't even started on him yet. Hillary's been through their meat grinder and survived, she gets it. I hope Obama does too.
brokenarrow @ 36:
My guess is that this was Rumsfeld's baby. Rove was certainly kept updated on what was going on, since this has been one of the most politically coordinated administrations in American history. But Donald Rumsfeld and his protege Dick Cheney were not about to let Karl Rove tell them how to run anything. Rove's responsiblities were George Bush and elections. Wars were Rumsfeld's job.
No Karl would never do something like this!
From the shim to the sham, DaRita wne to Bank Of America, nice.
L.A. Confidential @ 19:
When Archer-Daniels-Midland became a major corporate sponsor (in the 1990s, I recall) it was clear NPR was destined to become nothing but a mouthpiece for the corporations.
ADM scooped up all the Family Farms bankrupted by the Reagan Administration and replaced the families with huge mechanized computer regulated factory farms.
Tore down the windbreaks put up after the Great Dust Bowl to prevent the same ever happening again - the trees got in the way of the machines.
Ended all remaining biodiversity in the region by replacing everything with crop land.
AgriBusiness - by the Corporations, for the Corporations.
And I still find myself arguing with the dolts who get their so-called news from the TV. Why? Just watching about 10 minutes of the morning or nightly so-called news makes me run screaming. If their mouths are open, they are schilling for some corporation or this administration. Money makes the world go 'round I guess. I now call them presstitutes instead of journalists.
♠Bangkok-Bob♠ @ 33:
Media Matters has an online petition with all the contacts you need...
Sorry...
http://mediamatters.org/action_center/military_analysts/?f=h_top
the two strongest points I have heard about summing up the Republicans are:
1) Republicans do not care about being right they only care about making money. (I would only add that making money is not everything).
and
2) The Republicans care more about the Republican party than they do about America....
rooth hussein @ 34:
Woah, I didn't say he isn't capable of performing vile acts. He is and he has. What I'm saying is that attributing every vile act to Rove creates a boogy man, which is dangerous. It lends him power over the accusations that are based in truth, giving him the ability to spin any legitimate underhanded deeds by pointing out the weak accusations and calling it conspiracy.
Everyone has been awful quick to say Rove is behind everything under the sun.
maybe instead of begging for money, national pentagon rq radio should get a refund for whatever they paid these people to be on the air.
i like pie too!
Actually, to go to FACTS: Cheney is Charles' Schultz baby. He is more than a bit fond of HiLIARy.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21054
For all the unenlightened, much of the Clinton's wealth comes from URANIUM and nuclear proliferation:
http://www.vanityfair.com/ontheweb/blogs/daily/2008/03/bruce-feirstein.html
IMHO, the only thing standing between the tyranny of The World is the investigation into the BAE scandal and the Canadian Senate ... and our ability to envisage a better future and doing what it takes this summer to end the profitability of business as usual.
Rather than write the (hopeless) media, support the appointment of the Special Prosecutor! Get ready for a public strike on 9/11/2008 while keeping up the pressure on John Yoo and Douglas Feith. Even the ptb can't handle the KlusterfucK they have created - there's too much whistleblowing and the earthchanges are coming .. ! Keep pushing for the removal of Nancy Pelosi!
http://www.petitiononline.com/everyman/petition.html
Anyone is free to publish an article on OpEd News - and when you post it as an ACTION ITEM, an immediate media list becomes available. Free, easy .. www.opednews.com. He still doesn't have it updated for Canada, though! I will go on and post some information about this which will take a few hours or so to post which will give you an active list, under my name "ladybroadoak" ..
"All roads lead to Rove," remember?
Anyone still think we're not living in a Christofascist, terrorist dictatorship? Anyone?
What does anybody honestly expect? ABC, ABC News Now, CBS, CBS Radio Network, NBC, CNN, CNN Headline News, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, and NPR are not news or journalism outlets. They do not operate in order to inform. They are propaganda outlets and their only purpose is to manipulate. They do not serve, by any stretch of the imagination, the American public. They have no intention of ever doing so. All those entities are controlled by 6 people who are are committed to supplanting government that derives its authority solely from the sovereign will of the people. They are intent at replacing such government with fascist, totalitarian rule at the hands of those whom they have decided are elites. Propaganda and the control and manipulation of information is probably their most vital tool they have in achieving their goals.
Stop expecting journalism or a spirit of service to free society from these people; it is never going to happen. The expectation is, itself, only a dissipation and waste of energy. The days of integrity in journalism from these guys is now many, many years gone. That old house is derelict and termite rotten; nothing can stop it from falling down. The new house is the internet, with its millions of users, each of whom can investigate and promulgate truth for themselves. There is nothing useful to be gained from viewing or listening to the propagandists' offerings, other than monitoring what lies and manipulations they are attempting, only in order that their efforts may be countered. It boots nothing to be shocked by the lies of the liars; accept that they are going to lie and move on.
An illegal propaganda program aimed at Americans? You can bet your eye tooth that rove was involved in it up to his eyeballs!
Let's be real the propaganda machine really started in 1979 by Rev.LaHay changing words definitions to the church idiots (I said church idiots...didn't insult God...God is love, churches are tools of man and evil to control people.), then reagan killed the fairness communications act and the reset is our sad history!
Let's all get together and start a class action suit against the media for purposefully lieying to us, even though they knew it and not doing their job of investigation for truths. They haven't even fact checked in years, yet report news as fact. If they can't prove it they should say, we were told, not this is the news, period.....come on lawyers this is a valid case...I'll jump in!!!
folks, it's simple...
get your news from pacifica radio and this problem disappears.
fred c dobbs @ 56:
****Those of us hear do listen to 'better' news (there are 3 sides to every story, Your, Mine and the Truth...well the truth never is printed) and 'most' people allow themselves to be stupified by the 'regular' news monkeys, so it's not simple so long as 80%plus of Americans listen to propaganda and lies!
Unsurprising, but creepy.
Un-real! @ 55:
Sorry to burst your bubble. The Supreme court has already ruled against your case.
Watch this and weep.
The big problem with Greenwald is that he knew the McCaffrey was blasting the DoD
and he still lumped him in with the clones. Same with Wes Clarke. This guy on the right
looks like he had a stroke and generally he was OK as an analyst.
So WHAT did you not believe when we kept saying this entire TV thing is a DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN FROM THE PENTAGON?
WHY OH WHY are you STILL paying these clown's salaries? Don't you know that if you cancel your pay TV they will ALL get fired?
Don't you think they deserve that?
So cancel, please! For the sake of the nation, QUIT giving money to the enemy.
It was pretty obvious they were apologists for the Bush administration. Did anyone ever once hear one of them say anything even slightly critical of their policies? The networks that had them on routinely should be embarrassed. The "military analysts" should be ashamed of themselves. Is this what our kids are dying for?
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