Shepperd and Meigs Escape From Guantanamo Bay (from the author of "Shepperd and Meigs Go to White Castle")

In similar topic to my last post, the article by the New York Times, "Behind Military Analysts, the Pentagon's Hidden Hand," offers another look at the control over the media that the armed forces exercise. I remember many news reports that claimed to have special, professional, and knowledgeable insight, into the War on Terror and its areas of concern, like Guantanamo Bay. But these retired military officers, which we were led to believe were able to provide adequate unbiased analysis of current military operations, gave no such original content. Their ties to military contractors and special all-access passes kept them roped quite closely to what amounted almost to a script of talking points to be made while on the air.. from the Pentagon. Their carefully orchestrated tour of Guantanamo Bay as well as the rest of their analysis on Iraq was not their own. The information they got about all of the topics was directly given to them by the Pentagon, and we can be certain that any unfavorable facts, figures, or images were carefully strewed away. I think this ties into my last post, that they lack of vigilance by journalists and network executives paved the way for these Pentagon posterboys to shore up the Bush Doctrine and keep the American people in a perpetual state of ignorance.