Information – Objectivity Questioned

OPINION: What The Pentagon Was Feeding Us (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)…Joseph Galloway, McClatchy Newspapers, May 19, 2008, Pg. 13B

…There’s little doubt that this program violated laws against covert propaganda operations mounted against the American people by their government. But in this administration, there’s no one left to enforce that law or any of the others that the Bush operatives have been busy violating. The real crime is that the scheme worked. The television network bosses swallowed the bait, the hook, the line and the sinker, and they have yet to answer for it.

Joe Galloway s a military columnist for McClatchy. Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf has called him “the finest combat correspondent of our generation — a soldier’s reporter and a soldier’s friend.” He is co-author of the book: We Were Soldiers Once… and Young.

A follow-up to the New York Times story regarding the objectivity of military analysts on the cable shows – see previous posting in the Information category.