Freedom, liberty. Fox News Middle East. via Informed Comment
KR Washington Bureau | 11/30/2005 | U.S. military pays Iraqis for positive news stories on war
U.S. Army officers have been secretly paying Iraqi journalists to produce upbeat newspaper, radio and television reports about American military operations and the conduct of the war in Iraq.
U.S. officials in Washington said the payments were made through the Baghdad Press Club, an organization they said was created more than a year ago by U.S. Army officers. They are part of an extensive American military-run information campaign — including psychological warfare experts — intended to build popular support for U.S.-led stabilization efforts and erode support for Sunni Muslim insurgents.
Even though the meme “the press doesn’t report any of the good things going on in Iraq” was always stupid, now it isn’t even remotely true 🙁
It’s like they want to “combat” the media that tries to report things as they see it (like Al_jazeera does…but to an ideologically repressive regime, anything approaching objectivity (even though there’s no such thing as “pure” objectivity) is always “partisan”