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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 01:10 PM
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Pentagon websites propaganda say some critics. Uhh, GEE, do ya think so?
Full story on CNN is right here

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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.

"There is an element of deception," said Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism. "The problem," he said, is that it looks like a news site unless a visitor looks at the disclaimer, which is "sort of oblique."




"There is an element of deception."
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Stop_the_War Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 01:12 PM
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1. CNN announces "The sky is blue!!!!!" n/t
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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 01:16 PM
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2. Didn't shrub say the sky was green, and falling down? nt
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