Remember this blast from the past?
Pentagon pays Iraqi papers to print its 'good news' stories
The Guardian, Thursday December 1 2005
Faced with suicide bombings, claims of Iraqi death squads, and kidnappings, the Pentagon has come up with an innovative solution to solving the problems in Iraq: buying good news. Using defence contractors or intermediaries posing as freelance reporters, the military has been paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by a military propaganda unit lauding the US mission.
And this recent diary?
How the Spooks Took Over the News
by Inky99
Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 11:46:21 PM PST
No, this isn't about Operation Mockingbird, whereby the CIA put journalists and news personnel on its payroll in order to lie to the American people.
So, in the midst of all these "the Surge is Working" reports from the MSM, one wonders whether all the happy news comes from some psyops colonel in the Pentagon?