MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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War Pornographers
By A Guy Called LULU on Tue, 05/17/2011 - 10:52am |Meanwhile, in the war zone they built a quarter-million-dollar stage set for nonstop war briefings. At home, they gave a boost to a form of militarized “journalism” already up and running during Gulf War I in which retired high military officers, like so many play-by-play analysts on Monday Night Football, became regular TV news consultants. This time around, they fielded a squadron of retired top brass, carefully coached by the Pentagon and sent out as “experts” to narrate America’s wars on almost every TV network imaginable.
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