[imc-st.louis] Fwd: Breaking News: Pentagon Used Propaganda Pundits

[ben]

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Subject: 	Breaking News: Pentagon Used Propaganda Pundits
Date: 	Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:04:42 -0500 (CDT)
From: 	Josh Silver, FreePress.net <list at freepress.net>
Organization: 	Free Press: media reform though education, organizing and 
advocacy

Free Press Action Fund: Action Alert
<http://free.convio.net/site/R?i=RXq7AKX-MR4PqFYlUPUoKw..>

Fox News:

The Pentagon is infiltrating the media with pro-war propaganda.

*Take Action Now*
<http://free.convio.net/site/R?i=HI0TYw5WiBcl8MKD8o985g..>

Yesterday, the /New York Times/ exposed a secret Pentagon campaign to
infiltrate the media with pro-war propaganda.

The scheme reaches all the way to the Bush White House, where top
officials recruited dozens of "military analysts" to spread favorable
views of the war via every major news channel -- without revealing they
were working from Pentagon scripts and often lobbying for major military
contractors.

*Spreading "covert propaganda" is illegal under federal law.* Congress
must investigate these military pundits and their ties to the Bush
administration, defense contractors and our national news media.

*Tell Congress: Investigate the Propaganda Pundits*
<http://free.convio.net/site/R?i=7P0mJevcCGhX5WAXrsV36Q..>

Signing this letter does work. If we can get 50,000 people to join this
call to Congress, they will likely take action to stop government
propaganda.

The more than 75 analysts exposed by the /New York Times/ have become
fixtures of war coverage on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, Fox News Channel and
MSNBC. The front-page article reveals the many ways that the Pentagon
fed them pro-war talking points and misinformation. The White House even
has a name for these covert propagandists: "message force multipliers."

The pundits trade on their access to the media and the White House to
secure high-paying jobs as lobbyists, consultants and contractors --
vying for hundreds of billions of dollars in military business generated
by the war.

*Take Action: Investigate White House Propaganda*
<http://free.convio.net/site/R?i=Ao4ITKB4CJh-w59C5m-y1g..>

An administration secretly forcing favorable views via the press is not
a partisan issue. *This is a violation of every conceivable standard of
journalism -- and possibly of federal law.*

It's time the truth about the selling of this war came out. You can help
make this happen.

Take action and then forward this e-mail
<http://free.convio.net/site/R?i=yRYiIg90wRSIopj-FNP6-Q..> to all of
your friends.

Onward,

Josh Silver
Executive Director
Free Press Action Fund
www.freepress.net
<http://free.convio.net/site/R?i=nBtefJ2GBXO2YitSfLfeoA..>

P.S. Read the /New York Times'/ front-page exposé:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html
<http://free.convio.net/site/R?i=w06Y7nPcBYm3Ycp91BdRHw..>.

P.P.S. Help us spread the word. Tell your friends
<http://free.convio.net/site/R?i=ULXE3V2DOVSUXSxCWMLTlg..> and join us
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-- 
Ben West
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