An alternative to continuing this high level of feeding between Pentagon, ex-Pentagon, and News Sources was as follows: (4) Have the war in Iraq followed by a Civil War, so that even more former military officers could get jobs on the tube and other media fronts worldwide.
What a wonderful war- and money-making concept, eh?
In the meantime, CNN and other news sources will continuously refuse to employ and pay pro-Peace Americans. This is why silence was sickening in the run-up to the war and in the case of many public issue campaigns on the war-costs to American's physically, financially, and psychologically.
All this is explained at: http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/22/pentagons_pundits_a_look_at_the
There is audio for that article, "Pentagon Pundits: A Look at the Defense Department's Propaganda Program", demonstrating the past 11 years of research on the continuing black-washing of American peace voices occurring since prior to the U.S.'s war in Kosovo.
Meanwhile Pentagon and TV spinners continue to manipulate Americans and are paid by our tax-payer supported executive branch. That is, they all continued misleading the American public despite the fact that the U.S. government told its Pentagon public relations people, etc. in 2003, "We actually don't have hard evidence right now that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction." Did any of them go on the air and say that? No. The Pentagon, I think, had total control and total faith that these guys would deliver the message that they intended to deliver to the public, and that's exactly what they did, and the media did very little to counteract this overwhelming propaganda campaign from the Pentagon.
Finally, "Should I change my name to 'General' in order to get my views recognized by the press in America????"
In short, within this context and crisis in media and governance whereby the USA news corporations and their drones, like Aaron Brown of CNN, worship and pay (financially and with respect) ex-military personnel to such a degree that they don't question them, i.e. they behave like parishioners in a church, synagogue, or mosque who don't question the minister or priest at a pulpit.
This all should be illegal-and I suggest making it illegal for military personnel to lobby for (or be hired by) media and private military-dependent concerns for 5 or more years after they leave the military.
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