Harry Shearer: The Military Analyst Scandal Dies -- Even on NPR?
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
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...
