Before you accuse me of wearing a tinfoil hat, keep in mind that this comes directly from the New York Times.
According to the Times, the Pentagon has been appointing the military analysts you see on those 24/7 news stations, so that they would say nice things about our wartime activities.
Direct quote:
"To the public, these [military analysts] are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as “military analysts” whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-Sept. 11 world.
Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found.
The effort, which began with the buildup to the Iraq war and continues to this day, has sought to exploit ideological and military allegiances, and also a powerful financial dynamic: Most of the analysts have ties to military contractors vested in the very war policies they are asked to assess on air."
So, to recap, the executive branch of the United States government has been feeding lines to the men who have been providing the public with the war narrative for more than five years now. Those men also had business ties to the war effort that made it fiscally advantageous to them for the fighting to continue.
That's troublesome, wouldn't you say?
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