In April the New York Times revealed the Pentagon recruited more than seventy-five retired military officers to appear on TV outlets as so-called military analysts ahead of the Iraq war. The so-called analysts were given classified Pentagon briefings, provided with Pentagon-approved talking points and given free trips to Iraq and other sites paid for by the Pentagon.

Michael Copps, FCC Commissioner

Robert McChesney, Co-founder of Free Press. Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of several books including his latest, “The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas.” He is widely regarded as one of the nation’s foremost media historians.

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