As I mentioned in my post last week, the New York Times has released the results of a lengthly investigation into the Pentagon’s propaganda efforts during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, in the form of an 11 page report on the program. I will not go into details on this old news, but check out this post if you want to read a good review of the situation.
The media has said almost nothing concerning this situation. I think that with public trust in the Big Media as low as it is, Fox News, CNN, NBC, etc. could go a long way towards regaining public trust by admitting their error openly. That being said, it does not surprise me at all that the media has been completely silent about the issue.
In an interesting new development, the Department Of Defense has released all of the documents that the New York Times used as their main source in their article (after the NYT sued the Pentagon for access to the documents). Given the fact that the documents are 8,000 pages long, it is not surprising that it took them several years to do their research. As pointed out in this post, the documents as released by the DOD have been uploaded in a format that is extremely difficult to index and search. However, the author of that post has already found some interesting tidbits in just the sort time that the documents have been available.
As I stated earlier, I am challenging everyone to contact their senators to demand a full congressional investigation into this program. We can be a catalyst for change, but only if we make our voices heard.
Tags: Politics
