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Oliver Stone Casts Brolin as Decider But Looks for Perfect Cheney
RadarOnline.com —
... : Hollywood mogul and Hillary -supporter Harvey Weinstein denies reports that he threatened Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with choking off his hearty political donations if she didn't push for a revote in Florida and Michigan. Bad watchdog! : It's been almost a month since the New York Times exposed the Pentagon's "news analysts" propaganda program, and the networks are mum. Even politicians like John Kerry are starting actually urge cable news to investigate something with some journalistic credibility. ...
Late Breaks: Real Beauty? Not So Much.
Pressed —
... -Congressional Democrats are calling for an inquiry into a Pentagon program to seed cable news with pro-military analysts. [Politico] ...
Harry Shearer: The Military Analyst Scandal Dies -- Even on NPR?
Huffington Post Entertainment Blog —
... Two weeks ago, the New York Times revealed that the "military analysts" parading through network and cable newscasts for the past six years have been largely willing members of a Pentagon psy-ops program, used as "message force multipliers" to carry good-news messaging about the war to viewers. Today, the Politico runs a story about the deafening response from those networks, usually so eager to hop onto and run with a major New York Times scoop. ...
Selling A War-Shill Exposé [Journalismism]
Gawker —
... on how major news networks presented as their own military "analysts" former officers who were on the payroll of major defense contractors and who had received talking points in special Pentagon briefings. The networks declined to cover the story and the scandal never caught fire. The newspaper's solution? ...
