Domestic Propaganda, Military Analysts, and the US Media

8/10/2009 Health Care Protests, Sotomayor Nomination, Fairness Doctrine Covered

Recent entries have covered the Sotomayor Supreme Court nomination and the Bush-era use of VNRs to manipulate public opinion. Upcoming entries will focus on the spate of contentious protests against health-care reform taking place during the summer of 2009, and the FCC’s Fairness Doctrine of recent memory. We welcome your contributions to this project.

11/29/2008 Recent Additions

With the advent of a new US president, we decided to cover some of the slanted, propagandistic coverage given to the presidential candidates by their rivals and the pundits and commentators who shape public perception. As always, we invite your contributions.

6/25/2008 Project Continues to Expand

There is, of course, far more to the subject of domestic propaganda than the single Pentagon military analysts program. We continue to document this; you are invited to be part of the project.

5/31/2008 Examining the Pentagon Propaganda Operation

On April 20, the New York Times published a revelatory—and since then, largely ignored—article detailing the Pentagon’s systematic propaganda campaign to promote the Iraq war and manipulate public opinion through the use of retired military officers as “independent” network analysts and commentators. The citizen journalists and …

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