Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Propaganda

I wanted to point to this story in Saturday's New York Times. Turns out that the Pentagon was lobbying all those retired generals used as guest miltary experts and handing them talking points. This isn't particularly surpising to me but it would be nice if it was.

Predictably, unless you read Saturday's New York Times, you probably didn't hear about this. Oddly, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and Fox haven't mentioned it. wonder why?

It should be noted that this is one of the great things about blogs (see greenwald here and here). This information saw extensive distribution over the blogosphere despite its notable absence from major media sources. Many thousands more people recieved and distributed the information than would have been possible otherwise.

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