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"Pentagon offers $20 million to monitor Iraq stories"

Bowser — 9/3/2006 3:46:14 PM (archived)

Contract winner would watch tone of U.S. and foreign war coverage.

Story here.

Arf

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"Pentagon offers $20 million to monitor Iraq stories" - Bowser - 9/3/2006 3:46:14 PM
- This is getting uglier by the day. (n/t) - ER - 9/4/2006 1:57:19 AM
- The Pentagon's insatiable desire to control is their weakness, not their strength. (n/t) - Eric - 9/3/2006 8:22:14 PM
  - "Monitor" is not the same thing as "control." - Tom Brosz - 9/4/2006 2:48:20 AM
    - "Monitoring" domestic news for tone was a legitimate Gestapo function. - Bowser - 9/4/2006 4:09:44 AM

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