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Military-Media Complex Backs Down

April 28, 2008 RSS Feed Print

Score 1 against the military-media complex.

On April 25, the Pentagon announced it would suspend its briefings for retired brass hats who often go on TV to give the military's line on the war. At last, it was recognized that this practice has amounted to a surge in propaganda on the Pentagon's part.

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veterans,
media,
national security terrorism and the military,
Iraq war (2003-2011),
military,
Department of Defense

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Thank God for the retired Military commentators!! What a relief from the pathetic so-called media experts who are generally neither experts nor truthful!! I get so sick of such biased and often dishonest reports... that Fox News and the Wall Street Journal are about the only media I can trust!!

As a former career Intelligence Officer for some 22 years ... and a Navy seagoing officer before that ... it's fairly easy to discern the fiction potificated by these outlandish Libreral Media Gurus!! What did our Country do to deserve such Rascals??

Shameful indeed ... and the same fabrications I observed during the Vietnam

War!! So bad that I could only surmise they wrote them from the Bar in the Caravelle Hotel in Saigon. Yes, different reporters ... same old bias!!

If only they cared about the TRUTH ... and not the "Axes" they wanted to grind!! The damage they do to our Country will haunt them some day ... when they find out the price they must pay for such Skulduggery!!

William Quisenberry of FL 3:54PM April 28, 2008

Did these folks lie? Did they convey untruths? I think not!! The ones who routinely convey untruths and half-truths are the so-called "professional" media people who spin things their way relentlessly. Think Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather.

R, Taus of TX 2:04PM April 28, 2008

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John MashekJohn W. Mashek covered politics in Washington for four decades with U.S. News & World Report, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Boston Globe. His primary beats were Congress, the White House, and national politics. He covered every presidential election from 1960 to 1996. He was a panelist in three televised presidential debates in 1984, 1988, and 1992.

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