To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
Posts Tagged ‘David Barstow’
Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embedded in Local Media
Posted: 3 October 2010 by Little Alex in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: ABC, Af-Pak War, Bush Administration, CBS, Chicago Tribune, CNN, David Barstow, Defense Department, FOIA, FOX News, Iraq War, John Cook, military industrial media complex, MSNBC, Newspeak, Obama Administration, PSYOPS, US, US Army, War, War on Terror, WRAL, WTOC
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Pentagon Won’t Confirm End of Bush ‘Military-Industrial-Media-Complex’ Propaganda Program
Posted: 29 October 2009 by Editors in Af-Pak War, Political ScienceTags: Brad Jacobson, Bryan Whitman, Bush Administration, David Barstow, Donald Horstman, military analysts, military industrial media complex, Newspeak, Norman Solomon, NY Times, Obama Administration, Pentagon propaganda wing, propaganda, Raw Story, Reese Erlich, Robert Gates, Robert Gibbs, Roxie Merritt, Sam Gardiner
David Barstow won a Pulitzer Prize for his report at The New York Times on the Bush Administration’s covert propaganda wing of the Pentagon recruiting retired military analysts to manufacture consent for its policies in the media. Pentagon officials “equivocated on the subject of whether the program has ended”, Brad Jacobson reports at The Raw Story.
The 21st Century ‘Military-Industrial-Media Complex’ (Video)
Posted: 12 May 2009 by Editors in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: 9/11, ABC, Amy Goodman, Barry McCaffrey, Bob Scales, CBS, Cheney, CNN, David Barstow, DN, Don Sheppard, fascism, FOX News, George Bush, inspector general, Iraq, Iraq War, John C. Garrett, Ken Allard, law, libertarian, liberty, media, Middle East, military analysts, military industrial complex, Montgomery Meigs, MSM, MSNBC, Newspeak, NPR, NYT, Obama, Pentagon, Pulitzer Prize, retired military, Rumsfeld, terrorism, Thomas G. McInerney, Tom McInerney, Torie Clark, US, War, Wayne Downing
The NY Times investigative reporter who the mainstream media won’t interview, David Barstow, interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! (DN!) for the first time since winning the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for exposing the corporate war machine’s propaganda wing: the Pentagon. (more…)