Пропаганда пентагона более плохая чем мы думали
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Дэвид Barstow Нью-Йорк Таймс писало первую рассрочку в будет уже оглушать exposé оружия пропаганды администрации кустика самого мощного используемого для того чтобы продать и управить войну на Ираке: врезать воинских пропагандисток сразу в сети TV как commentators на-воздуха. Мы и другие длиной рецензировали
widespread практика сети TV нанимать бывших воинских должностных лиц для служения как аналитики, только для того чтобы выровняться в наших самых цинических моментах мы не предвидели как неудача оно была. Barstow painstakingly документировало как эти аналитики, большое часть из их воинские консультанты индустрии и lobbyists, сразу были выбраны, после того как им управили, после того как они скоординированы и дали их говорить указывает министрами пентагона пропаганды.
Спасибо двухклассное исследование к Нью-Йорк Таймс, мы сегодня знаем то Виктория Clarke, после этого заместитель секретаря сената обороны для общественных дел, запустили программу аналитика пентагона воинскую в начале 2002. Эти supposedly независимо воинские аналитики были в действительности координируемой командой пропагандисток pro-войны, лично завербованной министром обороны Дональд Rumsfeld, и действовать под tutelage и развитием Clarke.
Один бывший участник, аналитик Кеннет Allard NBC воинский, вызывал усилие «psyops на стероидах.» Как отчеты о Barstow, «внутренне документы пентагона повторно refer to воинские аналитики как множители усилия сообщения `' или' surrogates' смогло быть подсчитано дальше для того чтобы поставить темы и сообщения `администрации' к миллионам `американцов in the form of их собственные мнения.' … Дон Meyer, помощник к госпоже Clarke, сказало стратегическое решение было сделано в 2002 для того чтобы сделать аналитиками главным образом фокус связей с общественностью нажать для того чтобы построить войну аргументы за.»
Clarke и ее старший помощник, T. Брент. Krueger, окончательн подписанное вверх по больше чем 75 выбытым воинским офицерам которые penned колонки газеты op/ed и появленное на новости телевидения и радиоего показывает как воинские аналитики. Пентагон созвал еженедельные собрания с воинскими аналитиками, которые продолжались 20-ого апреля 2008, когда Нью-Йорк Таймс побежало рассказ Barstow. Программа доказала настолько успешно что она была расширена к вопросам кроме войны Ирака. «Другие ветви
администрация также начала использовать аналитиков. Г-н. Gonzales, then the attorney general, met with them soon after news leaked that the government was wiretapping terrorism suspects in the United States without warrants, Pentagon records show. When David H. Petraeus was appointed the commanding general in Iraq in January 2007, one of his early acts was to meet with the analysts.”
Barstow spent two years digging, using the Freedom of Information Act and attorneys to force the Bush Administration to release some 8,000 pages of documents now under lock and key at the New York Times. This treasure trove should result in additional stories, giving them a sort of “Pentagon Papers” of Iraq war propaganda.
In 1971, when the Times printed excerpts of the Pentagon Papers on its front page, it precipitated a constitutional showdown with the Nixon Administration over the deception and lies that sold the war in Vietnam. The Pentagon Papers issue dominated the news media back then. Today, however, Barstow’s stunning report is being ignored by the most important news media in America — TV news — the source where most Americans, unfortunately, get most of their information.
Joseph Goebbels, eat your heart out. Goebbels is history’s most notorious war propagandist, but even he could not have invented a smoother PR vehicle for selling and maintaining media and public support for a war: embed trusted “independent” military experts into the TV newsroom. As with most propaganda, the key to the success of this effort was the element of concealment, as these analysts and the Bush administration hid the fact that their talking points and marching orders were coming directly from the Pentagon.
The use of these analysts was a glaring violation of journalistic standards. As the code of ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists explains, journalists are supposed to:
* Avoid conflicts of interest, real or perceived.
* Remain free of associations and activities that may compromise integrity or damage credibility.
* Refuse gifts, favors, fees, free travel and special treatment, and shun secondary employment, political involvement,
public office and service in community organizations if they compromise journalistic integrity.
* Disclose unavoidable conflicts.
* Be vigilant and courageous about holding those with power accountable.
* Deny favored treatment to advertisers and special interests and resist their pressure to influence news coverage.
* Be wary of sources offering information for favors or money.
The networks using these analysts as journalists shamelessly failed to vet their experts and ignored the obvious conflicts of hiring a person with financial relationships to companies profiting from war to be an on-air analyst of war. They acted as if war was a football game and their military commentators were former coaches and players familiar with the rules and strategies. The TV networks even paid these “analysts” for their propaganda, enabling them to present themselves as “third party experts” while parroting White House talking points to sell the war.
Now that Barstow has blown their cover, the TV networks have generally refused to comment about this matter. Further compounding their violations of the public trust, they are blacking out coverage of the New York Times exposé, no doubt on advice of their own PR and crisis management advisors.
Since the 1920s there have been laws passed to stop the government from doing what Barstow has exposed. It is actually illegal in the United States for the government to propagandize its own citizens. As Barstow’s report demonstrates, these laws have been repeatedly violated, are not enforced and are clearly inadequate. The U.S. Congress therefore needs to investigate this and the rest of the Bush propaganda campaign that sold the war in Iraq.
The attack and occupation of Iraq continues, with no end in sight. Estimates of the number of Iraqi dead range from the hundreds of thousands to more than a million. The cost to American taxpayers will eventually be in the trillions of dollars. More than 4,000 US soldiers have lost their lives, and this is just a part of the horrific toll of mental and physical disability that the war is taking on hundreds of thousands of troops and their families.
This war would never have been possible had the mainstream news media done its job. Instead, it has repeated the Big Lies that sold the war. This war would never have been possible without the millions of dollars spent by the Bush Administration on sophisticated and deceptive public relations techniques such as the Pentagon military analyst program that David Barstow has exposed. It should come as no surprise to anyone that Victoria Clarke, who designed and oversaw this Pentagon propaganda machine, now works as a commentator for TV network news. She may have changed jobs and employers since leaving the Pentagon, but her work remains the same.
John Stauber is the Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy.
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