The FOX News effect on the war

We’ve known about FOX news for a long time… their conservative slant and their guise of being “fair and balanced”. Many people have exposed this over the years as a counter-argument to the idea that the media is liberal.
Never before (to my knowledge) though, have military analysts been suspect in the same way… and not just on FOX. Senior military guys who get paid as “analysts” from all the major news networks and given high level access to the pentagon are lying to the American public to keep their jobs and their access… and that’s the plan by the administration!
Here is an excerpt from a NY Times article… and though you can claim that the NY Times is liberal, you can’t say they don’t have high journalistic standards of accuracy and fairness…

Those business relationships are hardly ever disclosed to the viewers, and sometimes not even to the networks themselves. But collectively, the men on the plane and several dozen other military analysts represent more than 150 military contractors either as lobbyists, senior executives, board members or consultants. The companies include defense heavyweights, but also scores of smaller companies, all part of a vast assemblage of contractors scrambling for hundreds of billions in military business generated by the administration’s war on terror. It is a furious competition, one in which inside information and easy access to senior officials are highly prized.

Records and interviews show how the Bush administration has used its control over access and information in an effort to transform the analysts into a kind of media Trojan horse — an instrument intended to shape terrorism coverage from inside the major TV and radio networks.

To me, this is an outrage piled upon us by the administration that has forced a dumb war down our throats and then lied to us about it OVER and OVER in seemingly every way possible.

I guess the only thing we can do about it is elect a new administration that will run the Pentagon differently!