Editorial: Spinning the news out of control Dallas Morning News News for Dallas, Texas Opinion: Editorials:
When the public was turning increasingly against the war, they were upbeat and positive.
What the public didn't know was that these experts were actually Pentagon spin-control surrogates, known in military parlance as 'message force multipliers.'
Briefed at taxpayer expense, their job was to shape public opinion about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Several also supplemented their incomes by working for top military contractors while those companies profited handsomely off the perpetuation of these wars.
The sentences above were clipped from an editorial in today's Dallas Morning News dealing with the paid propagandists (retired military) who were on the TV news as expert analysts, telling us how great the war was going and not to sweat the small stuff. In a decade in which outrages have been piled on top of each other, this is just another in a long list of things that Americans should be pissed off about but aren't.
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