This article in the NYTimes goes back to my post a few weeks ago regarding US TV news' instrumental role as Pentagon propagandists.
Very interesting take-away: in addition to obviously having a pro-military bias as former soldiers, many of the "retired generals" that appear as commentators on FOX or CNN whenever we bomb somebody are actually on the payrolls or boards of leading US defense contractors and weapons manufacturers.
Now do you suppose when the Pentagon pays for their flights to observe US forces in action in order for them to narrate indirect advertising for Lockheed Martin on CNN, that counts as government intervention in the marketplace?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html?ex=1366516800&en=3ee97594863f8a01&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
Monday, April 21, 2008
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