21 April 2008
The Pentagon Cultivates the Media's Military Analysts
The true culprit in David Barstow’s report in the April 20, 2008 New York Times, “Courting Ex-Officers Tied to Military Contractors,” is the media. As he attributed to the Pentagon’s Lawrence De Rita, “we assume” the military analysts and the networks know where the conflict of interest lines are. It has been the electronic and print news agencies who have sacrificed “objectivity” to the convenience and profitability of accepting commentary on the strategy and conduct of the Iraq war that is canned by its lead perpetrator.
The true culprit in David Barstow’s report in the April 20, 2008 New York Times, “Courting Ex-Officers Tied to Military Contractors,” is the media. As he attributed to the Pentagon’s Lawrence De Rita, “we assume” the military analysts and the networks know where the conflict of interest lines are. It has been the electronic and print news agencies who have sacrificed “objectivity” to the convenience and profitability of accepting commentary on the strategy and conduct of the Iraq war that is canned by its lead perpetrator.
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