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When American military organizations pay to have items put in the news that are favorable to American military activities, war-weary residents may begin to assume that most, if not all, news articles published in those papers or on those websites are paid propaganda. Even if some of them are not.
If we want to pay for commercials, they should be labelled as such so as not to discredit any volunteered positive reporting by real Iraqi journalists. Unless, of course, the perception is that there is none. And if that is the case, what does that tell us?