New York Times Exposes Pentagon Propaganda Operation
 
Resent-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:41:28 -0500 (CDT)


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News of the movement for April 21, 2008

--JOURNALISM & BEYOND--

BEHIND ANALYSTS, THE PENTAGON'S HIDDEN HAND Hidden behind an
appearance of objectivity in reporting about the occupation of Iraq
is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used certain analysts
in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration's
wartime performance.

David Barstow, New York Times
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FREE PRESS CALLS FOR CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION INTO PENTAGON
PUNDITS Government-sanctioned propaganda violates every conceivable
standard of journalism. That it has been allowed to continue
unquestioned and undisclosed for years is an indictment of both
this White House and a docile American media.

Free Press http://free.convio.net/site/R?i=MHe3SbI6iGqpU06pFddPCA..

PENTAGON'S MEDIA MANIPULATION ON WAR EXTENDED TO NEWSPAPERS What
may go overlooked in the aftermath of the New York Times article
about the Pentagon propaganda machine's control of TV news is that
all of the leading newspapers also use the same cabal members.

Greg Mitchell, Editor & Publisher
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NEW YORK TIMES INVESTIGATION EXPOSES PENTAGON PIMPS AND PROPAGANDA
OPERATION The New York Times used 8,000 pages of e-mail messages,
transcripts and records, accessed through suing the Pentagon, to
expose the Pentagon's control over access and information.

Katrina Vanden Heuvel, The Nation
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PENTAGON PROPAGANDA & ANTIWAR ANALYSTS Detailing the massive, secret
coordinated campaign by the Pentagon and all the leading television
news channels to sell and defend the administration's Iraq policy
is a critical piece of investigative journalism.

Ari Melber, The Nation
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MURDOCH, INK.

With a redesigned Wall Street Journal, mogul Rupert Murdoch is
launching an old-fashioned newspaper war against the New York Times.
Not since William Randolph Hearst took on Joseph Pulitzer have we
seen such a fight.

Johnnie L. Roberts, Newsweek
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--SAVE THE INTERNET-- PANELISTS ANNOUNCED FOR SENATE HEARING ON NET
NEUTRALITY The full Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing
on "The Future of the Internet" on April 22, 2008 at 10 a.m.

Senate Commerce Committee
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SENATE TO TACKLE NET NEUTRALITY THIS WEEK Lawmakers are slated to
hold a hearing to consider the broad themes of "developing applications,
consumer expectations and network operation.

Kenneth Corbin, Internet News
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ISPS' ERROR PAGE ADS LET HACKERS HIJACK ENTIRE WEB, RESEARCHER
DISCLOSES Seeking to make money from mistyped Web site names, some
of the largest ISPs instead created a massive security hole that
allowed hackers to use Web addresses owned by virtually any large
site.

Ryan Singel, Wired http://free.convio.net/site/R?i=Fd1Ca3M9NlbAhcq7SLH1_Q..

DELIVERING THE BITS A dozen years have passed since David Isenberg
wrote "The Rise of the Stupid Network," where he outlined how a new
philosophy and architecture were changing the communications business.

Economist http://free.convio.net/site/R?i=jJeSAAkXcRTlit4ybPqpuQ..

CAN THE FCC HANDLE THE TRUTH?

In Palo Alto, the FCC was confronted with what, to some of the
commissioners, were definitely uncomfortable, even inconvenient,
truths that smack into the rhetoric about the "market" and the need
for private sector solutions.

Art Brodsky, Public Knowledge
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CHRISTIAN COALITION BACKS NET NEUTRALITY AT FCC HEARING Organizations
that don't have "deep pockets" should have the same access to the
Internet "without snooping or blocking or slowing down" by Internet
providers, said the vice president of a conservative Christian
advocacy group.

Lawrence Jones, Christian Post
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ACT NOW Support the Internet Freedom Preservation Act
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--COMMUNITY INTERNET--

FIBER OPTICS: BRINGING THE NEXT BIG THING TO NEW YORK After months
of negotiations, Verizon announced it would file an application
with New York City's Department of Information Technology and
Telecommunications to offer video service throughout the city.

Joshua Breitbart, Gotham Gazette
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KNIGHT FOUNDATION GIVES $25 MILLION FOR 26 COMMUNITY BROADBAND
NETWORKS Akron, Ohio, will be the first community to receive a grant
from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for the deployment
of a free public Wi-Fi network that covers 12 square miles, including
downtown.

Esme Vos, MuniWireless
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ST. CHARLES, ILL., CITYWIDE WI-FI LAUNCH SET FOR JUNE 2008 The city
of St. Charles, Ill., will have a muni wireless network in place
by the end of June 2008 if all goes as planned. Some areas will
already have Wi-Fi by the end of May.

Esme Vos, MuniWireless
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--FEATURE--

ACT NOW Yesterday, the New York Times exposed a secret Pentagon
campaign to infiltrate the media with pro-war propaganda. Spreading
"covert propaganda" is illegal under federal law. Tell Congress:
Investigate the Propaganda Pundits.

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FP ACTION NETWORK http://free.convio.net/site/R?i=tZts8Q-nERoeNqokek9QAg..

IN OTHER NEWS...

SENATOR URGES FCC TO BLOCK XM-SIRIUS DEAL A senior Democratic senator
urged communications regulators to block Sirius Satellite Radio's
purchase of rival XM Satellite Radio, saying the deal would lead
to higher prices to customers.

Peter Kaplan, Reuters
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MUSIC BIZ WARY OF SATELLITE RADIO MERGER A long-gestating merger
of XM and Sirius satellite radio companies -- expected to be approved
by the FCC in the next few weeks -- would initially mean duplication
of content. But much of that redundancy will be eliminated once the
deal is finalized.

Ken Tucker, Reuters
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POLITICOS WANT FREE WIRELESS BROADBAND ON UNUSED AIRWAVES A Silicon
Valley congressperson is proposing a new auction of unused radio
spectrum. And the winner would have to offer a free, wireless
broadband network that reaches 95 percent of the American population
within a decade.

Anne Broache, CNet http://free.convio.net/site/R?i=gC88nHC-l9CET6PiNBtFWQ..

CHINA VAULTS PAST USA IN NUMBER OF INTERNET USERS China, already
the world leader in cellphone use, has surpassed the United States
as the No. 1 nation in Internet users. The number of Chinese on the
Internet hit more than 220 million, according to estimates from
official Chinese statistics.

Calum MacLeod, USA Today
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DOJ WANTS MORE MONEY TO SCOUR P2P NETWORKS FOR CHILD PORN At a
hearing before the Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs, anti-child
porn activists urged the Senators to increase the FBI's budget for
combating child porn online and to move forward with plans to create
a next-generation network monitoring and database system.

Jon Stokes, Ars technica
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AT&T DEAL WILL SKIP LOCAL AUTHORITY AT&T could begin selling TV
service in Tennessee within the next three years under compromise
legislation that would allow the company to get a state franchise
and bypass local government control.

Naomi Snyder, The Tennessean
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AT&T TO AXE 4,650 AT&T will be cutting 1.5 percent of its workforce
-- about 4,650 employees -- as "part of the company's move from a
collection of regional companies to one AT&T."

Craig Matsumoto, Light Reading
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STATIONS ON MEXICAN BORDER MAY KEEP BROADCASTING IN ANALOG The
Senate Commerce Committee will consider a bill that would allow
full-power TV stations along the border with Mexico to continue
broadcasting in analog after the Feb. 17, 2009, cutoff date.

John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable
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