This is interesting: “The US defence department has set up a new unit to better promote its message across 24-hour rolling news outlets, and particularly on the internet.
“The Pentagon said the move would boost its ability to counter “inaccurate” news stories and exploit new media.”
So the US military is losing the propaganda war and aims to emulate its enemies to write history for itself, victor or not? This suggestion of the strong-arming of the press comes rather soon after the BBC admits its bias (although maybe for altogether more daft over-politically-correct employment opportunity reasons).
I’m guessing that if you’re already sceptical about your news sources this won’t affect you much, but what about those that take what’s written in print as gospel?
