Well, officially the mainstream media has lost all credibility now. Pentagon shill David Grange reappeared last night on Lou Dobbs' show and there was not one mention of the fact that Mr Grange was one of the people implicated by the NYT article on the Pentagon proporganda program. In fact, Grange was allowed to insert a talking point about Iran into this interview with Dobbs. Seriously, this is not democracy anymore. This is barely even a functioning society. CNN must be brought to task for their involvement in this program and for them to bring back David Grange after all that has been revealed, is shocking and disturbing.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmem...
Lt. Gen. David L. Grange doesn't wear the two stars on his shoulder much since his retirement in 1999. But he's on the list of retired officers the Pentagon has cultivated in an effort to influence domestic news coverage of military matters.
In fact, Grange, a CNN analyst, was tagged as the most visible shill for the Pentagon since 2002.
The Pentagon suspended the analysts' program and its weekly briefings shortly after the Times published its story in April revealing the extent of the Pentagon's message massaging.
When Grange appeared again on CNN late last week, host Lou Dobbs made no mention of Grange's previous participation in the Pentagon program. But he did ask him about Iran:
Grange, who led much of the U.S. military operations in the Balkans in the 1990s, is now the president and chief executive of the McCormick Foundation, a Chicago-based charity.
Apparently, Grange doesn't really see himself as a direct surrogate. He told the New York Times that he thought all those background sessions with Pentagon leaders were "just upfront information."
But a Pentagon memo called them "message force multipliers." The Defense Department often paid their travel expenses and hired a private defense contractor to monitor everything the analysts said in public.
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Maybe when thousands of is send in these contact forms they might change. (Something about snowball in hell)