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Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand

Date: April 20, 2008

Author: David Barstow

QUOTE: 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.  Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance...

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Article MetaInformation:

Key People:

• Col. Kenneth Allard
• Gen. David H. Petraeus
• William "Bill" V. Cowan
• Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld

Key Organizations:

• ABC
• Cable News Network LP, LLLP (CNN)
• CBS Corporation
• Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA)
• Committee for the Liberation of Iraq
• Department of Defense (DOD)/Defense Department
• Fox News
• NBC (National Broadcasting Company)
• New York Times Company

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Abstract Principles
  • Information
    • Hide/Mislead
  • Motivation/Rewards/Punishments
    • Influence / Persuasion / Bribery
  • Responsibility
    • Credentials / Experts / Background

• Government & Politics / History
  • Government (General)
    • International Relations/Diplomacy
      • War/Military
        • Military Intervention

• Media & Journalism
  • Journalism: Ethics/Objectivity
    • Accuracy/Truth
      • Media Bias (Organizational)
  • Manipulation / Propaganda / Leaks

• North America
  • United States of America/USA

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