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Beware Cosy Deals Between Politicians and Their Pundits

US Politics & Gov't (tags: united states, media, spin, pentagon )

- 156 days ago - guardian.co.uk

Those interested in the manipulation of public opinion by people in power will learn lessons from the scandal of how the Bush administration used spin to sell the Iraq war to Americans revealed in an investigative scoop by David Barstow of the NY Times.

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Past Member (0)

Sunday May 11, 2008, 6:56 pm
Old news perhaps to people in the US, but also an important story for (and one not necessarily as well-known by) those not Stateside – it certainly made me head straight to the relevant New York Times article, Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand, already submitted on Care2 by Mark S.

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Monday May 12, 2008, 10:03 am
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