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On Sunday, The New York Times published a report exposing the Pentagon’s secret campaign to use analysts in order to “generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance-” Since that time, TV news organizations have largely been silent on their role in the propaganda- Ari Melber notes that last night, PBS’s Newshour finally broke this blackout, but couldn’t convince the other networks to participate:
JUDY WOODRUFF:
Any which way you cut it, this is bad news. If you're reading this, you have internet access. Find out for yourself what's going on in the world. Take nothing for granted when watching the news.
On Sunday, The New York Times published a report exposing the Pentagon’s secret campaign to use analysts in order to “generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance-” Since that time, TV news organizations have largely been silent on their role in the propaganda- Ari Melber notes that last night, PBS’s Newshour finally broke this blackout, but couldn’t convince the other networks to participate:
JUDY WOODRUFF:
And for the record, we invited Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC and NBC to participate, but they declined our offer or did not respond-
Any which way you cut it, this is bad news. If you're reading this, you have internet access. Find out for yourself what's going on in the world. Take nothing for granted when watching the news.