Planted PR Stories Not News to Military

[SOURCE: Los Angeles Times, AUTHOR: Mark Mazzetti and Kevin Sack]
In contrast to assertions by military officials in Baghdad and Washington, interviews and Lincoln Group documents show that the information campaign waged over the last year was designed to cloak any connection to the U.S. military. Military officials in Iraq were fully aware that a Pentagon contractor regularly paid Iraqi newspapers to publish positive stories about the war, and made it clear that none of the stories should be traced to the United States, according to several current and former employees of Lincoln Group, the Washington-based contractor.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-infowar18dec18,1,6843651.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage
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* Tomlinson Pans Paying for Pro-Military Stories
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
Former CPB Chairman Ken Tomlinson is outraged -- outraged! -- to learn that the US military is trying to manipulate the media. That's his job, after all.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6292078?display=Breaking+News&referral=SUPP
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