"Now is the time to resist the propaganda the Pentagon produces and live up to our obligation to question authority and thereby help protect our democracy." AP CEO Tom Curley, speaking at University of Kansas.
In a speech at University of Kansas the head of Associated Press, Tom Curley, accused the Bush administration of systematically attacking the AP to ensure "unflattering" (ie. accurate) reporting of US actions in Iraq was kept out of the press.
The speech comes days after an AP investigation put the price of this year's Pentagon 'influence operations' - psychological warfare in the field and at home- at $4.7 billion, and revealed that it takes 27,000 employees to run this propaganda machine.
Curley also alluded to the detention and possible torture of journalists, and said that on one occasion the Pentagon had threatened to 'ruin' the AP for honest reporting of the US military invasion of Iraq.
Full articles here
http://harpers.org/archive/2009/02/hbc-90004359
and here http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/06/ap-ceo-bush-turned-milita_n_164812.html
The speech comes days after an AP investigation put the price of this year's Pentagon 'influence operations' - psychological warfare in the field and at home- at $4.7 billion, and revealed that it takes 27,000 employees to run this propaganda machine.
Curley also alluded to the detention and possible torture of journalists, and said that on one occasion the Pentagon had threatened to 'ruin' the AP for honest reporting of the US military invasion of Iraq.
Full articles here
http://harpers.org/archive/2009/02/hbc-90004359 and here
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/06/ap-ceo-bush-turned-milita_n_164812.html
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