Journalists paid to write for military Website

[Petrushka]

Pentagon is investigating the practice

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6915347/

[Rainscents]

1. Drip, drip drip....

more and more corruption!!!

[AP]

2. Let's see their names, and let's see where else they've

published articles and what they've said...

[James T. Kirk]

10. www.balkantimes.com

http://www.balkantimes.com/

Many of the articles have bylines.

[NVMojo]

3. ...and there will be more like this ....

[Liberty Belle]

4. :kick:

This involves at least 50 journalists at military publications in Europe and Africa. In one case, they changed a headline about remembering holocaust victims to instead warn about the dangers of extremism.

American readers should take that message to heart!

[Petrushka]

8. The headline was changed on the news report found here:

http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GR/newsbriefs/setimes/newsbriefs/2005/01/28/nb-04

Also: On the same day (1/28/05), other news at the Southeast European Times included "Romanian Prime Minister Condemns Wiretapping of Journalists' Phones", viz:

www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/archivelist/setimes/newsbriefs/2005/01/28

[KoKo]

5. Larry DiRita is investigating this for the Pentagon?

:eyes:

[librechik]

6. fox investigates henhouse predators n/t

[merwin]

7. Move on, nothing to see here. Keep moving.

[PapaJoe]

16. Not true, I just discovered Jack

http://www.right-wing-pseudo-christians.com/matthew-25.htm#index

[dxdem]

9. Looks like

I picked the wrong business. Apparently I should've been a journalist, or on a radio show. I could be gettin PAID right now!

[Kimber Scott]

14. Don't most journalists get paid? nt

[Athame]

11. Hmmm, trying to pin it on the Clenis, again?

“It would be most helpful to review activities going back six to eight years, as I assume many existing relationships have continued for that many years or longer,” Di Rita wrote, noting the Southeast European Times operation. “It would be appropriate to review that activity and others like it.”

This could be a limited hangout to show that "Clinton did it, too!" and divert attention from the more egregious instances elsewhere.

[The Backlash Cometh]

12. Anyone think this is limited to the Balkans?

Didn't think so.

[muchacho]

13. where's that independent council when you need it?

[Divine Discontent]

15. yeah, like there's ever gonna be one of those!

the propaganda machine has been in HIGH GEAR the past 4 years,
how else could someone like slimey-w get all those votes! oh I know!!! tell everyone what they need to hear so they think that you're for them, when in reality, you're not, but it looks good on paper!

what I wrote to keith o. and senator biden:

so, when's the white house going to just give us the entire list of the DOZENS of journalists and TV commentators on their payroll, and save us all the time wondering? or do we have to find them out one by one every couple days?

[Tinoire]

17. It's more than that. Wolfowitz now has International "News" Sites

Pentagon sites: Journalism or propaganda?
From Barbara Starr and Larry Shaughnessy
CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Department of Defense plans to add more sites on the Internet to provide information to a global audience (snip).

The Defense Department runs two Web sites overseas, one aimed at people in the Balkan region in Europe, the other for the Maghreb area of North Africa.

(snip)

Information warfare

The sites are run by U.S. military troops trained in "information warfare," a specialty that can include battlefield deception.

Pentagon officials say the goal is to counter "misinformation" about the United States in overseas media.

At first glance, the Web pages appear to be independent news sites. To find out who is actually behind the content, a visitor would have to click on a small link -- at the bottom of the page -- to a disclaimer, which says, in part, that the site is "sponsored by" the U.S. Department of Defense.

(snip)

The Pentagon maintains that the information on the sites is true and accurate. But in a recent memo, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz insisted that the Web site contractor should only hire journalists who "will not reflect discredit on the U.S. government."

(snip)

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/04/web.us/index.html

[Up2Late]

18. My favorite is still the Texas GOP "journalist" in the WH Steno Pool

...Oh, I mean "Press Corps," It's so hard to remember to call them that.

[baron j]

19. Perhaps they need to add a new "w" to the five w's of journalism

Who, What, Where, When, Why, and Where's my money?!

Or W's journalism is a possessive term.

Whenever telemarketers call trying to sell me a local newspaper subscription, I used to say that I could read it online, or, if I wanted the paper, I could read it at the library a block away. Now I can say that the last time I picked one up, it only had the Op/Ed section in it...

[Nile]

20. Journalists paid to write for New York Times.

I did not know that journalists were supposed to work for free.

[mordarlar]

21. The problem is they are being paid to write biased stories.